Single channel video, found object chairs, a nondescript room, palpable tension, 3.30 mins.
Absurdist porn made by a fictional chair enthusiast. This work is a part of an ongoing project investigating eroticism in the contemporary age of deviantart mspaint fetish niches and internet degeneracy. Creating an artificial microcosm of the hyper-online, observing the phenomena of digital patterns such as the "lolcow", the genuine and earnest artistry of fetish art and the disintegration of the visceral real through the performance of existing online.
0.5. Chair porn. A corny porno with chairs. No voice over but just silence, wood creaking, subtitles of furniture delight.
Faux video essay in response to chair video archive (reupload), single channel video, 12:39mins.
1. This chair porn has a chair porn creator, this person becomes an internet staple, akin to Chris Chan and her creation of sonichu. Art born of chronically online shaky ms paint lines and divine magnum opus of a not so sane creator in a constantly exposed online environment. This is genuine and honest.
2. This internet persona and his craft will become a sort of lolcow. A spectacle to watch, analyse and document. Video essays and archives spawn from internet "theorists". Forums discussing this person, informal documentaries (youtube video), essays. They are now a piece of internet history by no means of their own actions. They may not have been monumental, but they have become a part of the public internet consciousness. One specific video essay is made, going through the entire history of chair porn maker, analysing their practice and work, proposing theories and conspiracies.
Video documentation of performance lecture, 13:24mins.
3. I, Connor Chen, have strong opinions on this video essay discussing chair porn maker and the legacy of chair porn. I will present my opinion in a lecture theatre, playing the video essay on the screen and pause intermittently to voice my thoughts and objections.
Performed again at BLOCK PARTY: DARK ART, Verge Gallery.