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Bruckner’s work circuit Crushpad Lava and Crushpad Climax (2021) is a collage of dark room sci-fi, queer post-pornography and extraterrestrial social bonding. The artist approaches queer online pornography in terms of its affectively interwoven corporeality, formed between sensation, technology and labour. Set against the ever-evolving backdrop of the internet, Bruckner contemplates the hyperconnected restlessness that informs its multilateral relationship to porn, intimacy and connectivity. The principal element in her new multimedia installation is net porn data that dissipates, becomes lost, and fails because it is outside the spectrum of the usable. In the same vein, it is also pornographic data that does not confirm with a normative aesthetic of desire that is rendered e-waste. Aggregating this „non-existent“ data into corporealities of transition, Bruckner’s collage envisions the potential of digital failure as a refusal to submit to a contemporary society marked by data surveillance. The artist envisions embodied assemblages of ewaste, proposing conditions for transcorporeal experiences and invent infrastructures for a novel, pluralistic approach to connectivity and data sharing.The bodies rendered in Crushpad Climax are no longer inserted into the production process as mechanical human engines, forced to move to the rhythm of the machine, the internet. Rather, they are born of assemblage of data crumbs, cybernetic rupture, as materialsocial assemblages, which embody prosthetic forms of cyber struggles. 4K/HD 3-channel, Video installation, 2021, 12 minutes. Read full text here. Links: Channel 1: https://vimeo.com/554663131 Channel 2: https://vimeo.com/554660868 Channel 3: https://vimeo.com/585042171 Password: 1984