Beneath the title “edging—our bodies with out orgasms”, Michał Leszuk curates a gaggle exhibition at Kunstraum Lakeside that expands the annual theme Glitch with creative positions that open the world to a queer language and convey the hegemonic dominance of majority society to the sting. Edging, generally often known as orgasm management, practiced alone or with a number of companions, is conceived as a phenomenon that transcends the realm of sexuality whereas remaining firmly anchored in it. With chosen works by Equipment 22, Albin Bergström, Luca Büchler, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Francis Whorrall-Campbell, coupled along with his personal curatorial analysis, Leszuk explores its contradictions and potentials. Pleasure and stimulation are contrasted with a seemingly aimless (sexual) exercise. Or, transferred to prevailing situations in society, speedy acceleration on all ranges is interrupted by social stagnation, even regression. On this sense, edging shares key traits with the glitch. “Herein lies a paradox: glitch strikes, however glitch additionally blocks,” writes Legacy Russell, whose idea of the glitch is central to the 2025 annual program at Kunstraum Lakeside: “It incites motion whereas concurrently creating an impediment. Glitch prompts and glitch prevents. With this, glitch turns into a catalyst, opening up new pathways, permitting us to grab on new instructions.”1
Three interconnected motifs kind Michał Leszuk’s departure level: first, the precept of multiplicity, as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari described the dynamics of entanglements and assemblages, which work together in complicated, non-linear methods and result in unpredictable outcomes; the instability of the class “physique,” whose typical illustration and stuck idea are put up for dialogue by Legacy Russell as a glitch or malfunction; and final however not least, moments of want and lust that correspond to Roland Barthes’ thought of pornographic messages. “There’s a sure lure to seek for what’s unknown, what’s hybrid and ambiguous, and to fire up unsure desire-zones,” says Leszuk in regards to the idea of the exhibition. It’s “the journey of a wild celebration that may decide neither the start nor attain the top. Not like a construction, which is established by the signifying factors and positions (beginning-end), queering all the time stays unfinished, it takes a type of a attractive rhizome, mapping and traversing limitless multiplicities, concurrently rewarding it with pleasure, pleasure, and affirmation.”
at Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria
till August 14, 2025
