Ai Hasegawa
Second Year
The Extreme Environment Love Hotel. Carboniferous Room
The Extreme Environment Love Hotel simulates impossible places to go
such as an earth of three hundred million years ago, or the surface of
Jupiter by manipulating invisible but ever-present environmental
factors, for example atmospheric conditions and gravity. A love hotel
is a place for discrete intimacy but also a place for intensive
physical and mental exercise. How might our bodies change, struggle or
even adapt with varying conditions around us? For example, during the
Carboniferous period, ancestors of the dragonfly Meganeura grew up to
seventy-five centimeters due to the huge concentration of oxygen in
the air, a tremendous boon to the insect but high levels of oxygen
would be toxic to our fragile bodies.
such as an earth of three hundred million years ago, or the surface of
Jupiter by manipulating invisible but ever-present environmental
factors, for example atmospheric conditions and gravity. A love hotel
is a place for discrete intimacy but also a place for intensive
physical and mental exercise. How might our bodies change, struggle or
even adapt with varying conditions around us? For example, during the
Carboniferous period, ancestors of the dragonfly Meganeura grew up to
seventy-five centimeters due to the huge concentration of oxygen in
the air, a tremendous boon to the insect but high levels of oxygen
would be toxic to our fragile bodies.
Recent figures speculate that around 10% of children are now conceived
by In Vitro Fertilisation. The world around us and our reproductive
technologies have given rise to new ideas of what sex is or could be
and where it stands between our biologically-programmed needs and
inclinations and our human fetishes and desires. Perhaps the Extreme
Environments Love Hotel might give rise to new evolutions and
mutations of the human body and sex and give it a brand new role away
from any of these historical precedents.
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