by Iyo Bisseck, Petja Ivanova, Rain Rose and Kaya Zakrzewska

Resisting an essentialist view of gender, the project takes as its material the atmospheric conditions – metaphoric weather landscapes – detectable in a person’s crotch. Using moisture sensors built into a custom pair of panties, the artists harness the natural resources of pleasure, sexuality and intimacy found in a site that is too often associated with shame and repression. When worn, the sensorial pad can measure and track data, which is presented on screen as a 3D world, facilitating a dialogue with one’s own ecosystem. The piece is accessed as both an installation and a live performance, exploring storytelling using the body as the protagonist. Bodily fluids merge with emotional fluidity in this work, giving value and expressivity to the abject realm beyond traditional binaries of subject and object, self and other. The connection of bodies of water  - virtual and physical in our bodies - is amplified.
An intersectional feminist with migration experience, Petja Ivanova is a computational bio artist and lecturer. Rain Rose (they/them) is a dancer, performer and community organiser; Kaya Zakrzewska (she/her) is a dancer, teacher and performer; both are sex work activists and members of the Berlin Strippers Collective (BSC). Iyo Bisseck (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, interactive designer and programmer.
Underpinned and informed by theories around the uses of the erotic, Oasis Dot Wet strives to project an ethics of pleasure based on notions of community, intimacy and self acceptance.