Sterling Ruby "The Masturbators"
Foxy Production
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Foxy Production presents The Masturbators, a multiple channel video installation by Sterling Ruby that provocatively complicates the genre of performance video. Ruby uses porn stars as performers, positioning his viewers as the voyeurs of his actors’ intimate sexual actions, in a charged examination of the role of the artist and the construction of masculinity.
Male porn actors are asked to masturbate to climax, solo, in an empty room standing on color-coded towels. Instructions are given by the artist, a still photograph is taken, and then, as the action begins, the actors are left alone, never being sure if anyone is watching from the other side. Without their usual performance context, each pursues the given task with varying results.
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Schedule
from October 16, 2009 to November 21, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-10-16 from 18:00 to 20:00