Orgasm Energy Chart – 1970 Press release – Orgasm Renewal Project – 1972
With a turn to conceptual art in the 1960s, artists adopted new formats: lists maps and graphs became common in what art historian Benjamin Buchloh has described as an “aesthetics of ad ministration.” Playfully subverting this trend, General Idea created this work of mail art, consisting of a questionnaire and a blank chart. Respondents were invited to track their orgasms over the course of a month, and the results were returned to General Idea for analysis and display.
Orgasm Energy Chart – 1970 Press release – Orgasm Renewal Project – 1972
With a turn to conceptual art in the 1960s, artists adopted new formats: lists maps and graphs became common in what art historian Benjamin Buchloh has described as an “aesthetics of ad ministration.” Playfully subverting this trend, General Idea created this work of mail art, consisting of a questionnaire and a blank chart. Respondents were invited to track their orgasms over the course of a month, and the results were returned to General Idea for analysis and display.