JERK OFF WITH THE ARTIST
Jerk off with the artist is a online performance where people can access the artist's own chatroulette.
The performance originates from the so called "misuse" of chatroulette.com, an online service where people all around the world cross casually their webcams and chat together, in real time, interactively.
However, as if looking through the hole of a door, most of the time communication was difficult because of this inner voyeuristic satisfaction of looking others' intimacy. In this sense, though born to permit people to communicate to each other, the platform becomes pretty soon a place where the male population searches real time erotic games, showing off their genitals and enjoying the pleasure of interacting hic et nunc sexually with a stranger.
After a while, due to law restriction, chatroulette.com banned everybody showing off naked body and arranges a third part site where the realtime erotic cameras are monetized by offering a service of models posing for people searching for an erotic virtual liveness experience.
"Masturbate with the artist" break the one-to-one relation of chatroulette proposing a reverted panopticon (J. Bentham) where everybody can look inside the artist's door hole and enjoy erotically with him, in this sense quoting and updating Vito Acconci's performance masturbating inside the Sonnabend gallery (1971), as well as the re-enactement of Marina Abramovich at Guggenheim (2005).