LIQUID PORN | Stefan Mildenberger

LIQUID PORN CHAPTER I-III
2016-(…)
Handheld scans, C-Prints
Performancevideos
Videoanimations, HD, 16:9 Colour
Sound works,
(Flatscreen, Glassplate, Mobile scanner, Pornographic film material, Diverse material)

Performer: Irene Joa, KarMan, Stefan Mildenberger, H.P., Simon Schultz, Laurette Rasch
Concept / Realisation: Stefan Mildenberger

The video series LIQUID PORN explores the notion of a post-pornographic era. It was inspired by “Post Porn Politics – The Symposium Reader”, edited by Tim Stüttgen in 2009.
For the sound composition of the series, Mildenberger created fictional characters who inhabit this imagined post-pornographic future. Through their voices, they narrate everyday experiences, thoughts, and reflections on sexuality and intimacy beyond traditional pornographic codes.
The video animations are based on scans produced while porn clips were played on a screen. In a performative act, the surface of the monitor was continuously scanned with a mobile hand scanner until each clip was completely captured.
From these scanning processes, serial image traces emerged and were assembled in LIQUID PORN into horizontally moving animations. Each video band flows from right to left and has the same duration as the original scanned clip.
In this way, LIQUID PORN transforms pornographic imagery into abstract, fluid visual structures — situated between digital noise, bodily fragmentation, and medial dissolution — while reflecting on how sexuality, technology, and image production intersect within a post-pornographic condition.

LIQUID PORN CHAPTER I
2016
33 Handheld scans, C-Prints
Performancevideo, HD, 16:9 Colour
12 min 08 sec
Videoanimation, HD, 16:9 Colour
12 min 08 sec
Sound work, 12 min 08 sec

LIQUID PORN CHAPTER II
2017
32 Handheld scans, C-Prints
Performancevideo, HD, 16:9, Colour
9 min 45 sec
Videoanimation, HD, 16:9, Colour
9 min 45 sec
Sound work, 9 min 45 sec

LIQUID PORN CHAPTER III
2017
62 Handheld scans, C-Prints
Performancevideo, 16:9, Colour
23 min 45 sec
Videoanimation, HD, 16:9, Colour
23 min 45 sec
Sound work, 23 min 45 sec

LIQUID PORN CHAPTER III PERFORMANCE VIDEO
2017
Vdeo, HD, 16:9, Colour, Stereo, 28 MIn.
(Flatscreen, Glassplate, Mobile scanner, Pornographic film material, Diverse material)

LIQUID PORN CHAPTER I-III
2017
Videoinstallation (flat-screens, sound-showers, diverse material)
Installation view Künstlerhaus Faktor, Galerie Bridget Stern

LIQUID PORN CHAPTER I-III, 2017, multi-media installation, (flat-screens, sound-showers, diverse material)
Installation view Künstlerhaus Faktor, Galerie Bridget Stern