A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

A communal ritual with the internet’s sexual historian.

Together, we are tracing the pervasive and perverse origins of our digital tools. We move through a charged entanglement of desire and design, pleasure and control, lust and extraction. The internet is never neutral, and neither is touch.

A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET by Mindy Seu is a project in two parts: a participatory lecture performance and an artist book, tracing the pervasive and perverse origins of our digital tools. Alongside Seu, the audience becomes the voice. Citations are read aloud through a shared script on mobile devices: a collective act of speaking, reading and re-citation that becomes closer to exchange.

Staged in the Reading Room at State Library Victoria, the performance transforms the cathedral-like space into something intimate and electric. A mass of participants sits alone together, their voices humming, chiming, chanting. A chorus of internet intimacy made physical.

Content warning:

This performance includes explicit references to sex, sexual assault and nudity. This performance will take place in a dark room with bright lights.

Presented in partnership with Now or Never and State Library Victoria