“The Sexinsitu project takes the form of an archive, specific insofar as it collects data and materials that it produces itself, according to an elaborate method. The basic unit is video recordings. They are based on the method of body work, in which the participants, through body movements, recall their own stored sexual memories. They do this alone – without partners. The resulting choreographies become a prosthesis of this memory, an attempt to materialize intimate and ephemeral sexual events in images.
Thus, this is not an archive in the classical sense of the word, but rather a visual archive project that produces its own technology as a basis for creating a visuality of sexuality based on experience. Its task is to change not only the perspective of looking at sexuality, but to enable insight into this space for ourselves, to tame and express it.
The virtual dimension of recollection combines the tradition of performance with the subject of new media. The increasing participation of media in the production of our contemporary identities, adds another element to this relationship – empathy through embodiment. The dual logic of remediation states that the primary goal of our culture is to become as technologically medialized as possible, while removing all traces of our functioning through media. The importance of technology in the construction of our self is realized and fulfilled without our awareness of these processes. This recognition seems to be crucial in thinking about the body, its experiences and affects, including – sexuality. As our primary medium, it has become an encyclopedic product of this dual logic – the difference between the medialized image of the body and its experience in non-virtual life is as obvious to us as it is inescapable.

The project fills my diagnosed inability to share sexual experience in the space of language, theory and science by proposing a new medium: an embodied re-experience that allows sex to be captured as a space not of discourse, but of action. Sexinsitu creates a platform not only for expression, but also for the production of knowledge through the practice undertaken. (…)
In the image we can see only a piece of what opens up to us psychologically, socially, interpersonally. We produce an image, this single, unique reproduction of a sexual memory, which, unlike the simplicity with which we are used to associating what is “sexual,” is unreadable, unabsorbable as a fetish. Too abstract on the one hand and too crude on the other. Naked and veiled, explicite and understated. Censored virtually and “innocent” in a face-to-face situation. It is a distinct form of writing, something between a note, a sketch and a finished, monumental work. The restoration creates and opens a whole universe, while at the same time its documentation merely records this fact, marking the difference between image and life.
In this dimension, the single act of restoration is also a manifesto. A reflection on corporeality, a bodily trace, noting that I notice the body and sexuality as an element that connects me to the social world. I stand on the side of action, of searching, of weakness, on the side of experimentation, on the side of the unknown, on the side of a You-oriented world.
By presenting a slice of my own sexual self, I fight for the possibility of a subjective representation of sexuality, and thus the empowerment and emancipation of us all as sexual, sentient beings.”

(Excerpted from the doctoral dissertation “Sexinsitu: Sex in the Theater of Everyday Life”)

Persons present in the video material: Jakub Bolewski, Dobrawa Borkała, Paco Muro Croket, Kristina Ćuk, Katarina Duplancić, Taras Gembik, Antii Gona, Ignacy Hryniewicz, Edka Jarząb, Dylan Kerr, Tina Keserović, Aleksandra Kluczyk, Katarzyna Korytowska, Yulia Krivich, Małga Kubiak, Kaja Kusztra, Planeta Kuz, Monika Lopuszynska, Marta Malikowska, Elan Mehl, Zoi Michailova, Martyna Miller, Anastasia Pataridze, Michal Perla, Julia Poziomecka, Mariola Przyjemska, Jerzy Ryll, Anka Satellite, Piotr Sędkowski, Anka Stankiewicz, Sebastian Winkler, Marta Zdanowicz, Rafał Żarski