Extra Safe

What is personal is cultural. A rhomboidal opening bristling with condoms allows viewers to watch a film projection. The tape captures the process of interpersonal communication developing on the basis of phallically shaped rubber – both an obstacle and a challenge. The models create a non-verbal language determined by the situation: relational but individualised, intimate but not necessarily sexualised, useless but creative, political and personal... as personal as breathing is personal. It is a fantasy of patriarchal culture to perceive the phallus as the beginning of all value, signifying the signifying, writing the meaning of female corporeality as ‘phallic absence’. But the discourse continues.