ART MUST
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JA JESS 2023

Ja Jess (*1998) studiert an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

In Form von „treatments“ generiert dey eine Praxis aus der Theatralität gesellschaftlicher Kontexte und wie deren historische Prägung darin befindliche Rollen hervorbringt. Als Teil derer Praxis integriert Ja sich in die Theatralität dieser Kontexte, erfasst und verskriptet intraaktiv das Kursieren darin befindlicher, fiktional gesellschaftlich konstruierter Rollen und deren Verhältnisse. Ein serielles „de-inszenieren“ derer gesellschaftspolitischer Bedeutungen in Relation unterschiedlicher Kontexte. Wie verhandelt sich der berührte Raum an mir, wie gestaltet mich dein Selbstverständnis, so wie du dich lernst von mir zu unterscheiden? So wie wir uns sozial machen. Wie eine, sich im Auftreten anbietende Figur, Identitäten stiftet; Räume mit sich trägt und im verstellten Raum verwandelte Bedeutungen generiert.

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The dissociation to the fictive female figure. The distancing from a self inside, a reorganization inside ones own
body, a goodbye-song, a burying of a name inside of me. A name that is flourishing another that is still carrying
the other that is making out with her, the puppet the DOLL, that is sexualized, that is inviting to a bar of plastic
body-parts.
At the entrance lies the „fictive female figure“

DOLL is an old lady
As old as her mother her grand/ great grandmother
As old as her female ancestors and as young as every new assigned
She’s carrying all the passed away into the young innocent eyes

is a display
DOLL is Mneiai multiplying her mothers name
Mneiai is her mother Mneiai is herself
DOLL is a river memorizing all the passed born measured
DOLL is a well source of all welcomed in paradise
adaptive transformable switchy adjusting herself to everyones projection
enjoying her malleable creature

is she a tragic figure

confident in the body that is with her
enjoys herself
playfully
DOLL is never owned
she never really exists
she slights out of gaze as soon as she enters

Singing the orgasm
Sculpting a fictional body in shaping their wish
for inspired desire
She’s a cinema
your bodies trickster

Exposer and shutter speed
Envisioned stereotyp

Every sense as an erection
Turning herself on
each one
pleased by the delirium of equally erotic
Touched by the idea of the fragile
naiv breaking girl into potent dreaming
The staying innocent with every rubbing against the erotic space

They see what they wanna see and what they don’t wanna see they don’t see. They carry DOLLs picture with
them, they carry DOLLs picture as an illusionary with them.

Ja stays within the condom, teetotal sometimes has a tender dick a pink violet female non-binary male trans fluid flourishing transforming organ of a fake dick. A dick as their protector from the illusionary DOLL who’s picture is in everyones pocket and lens. Dick is blending the surface for DOLL. Dick makes DOLL a ghost absent from Ja. Ghost in everyones gaze. DOLL learns to choreograph those growing dark balls, learns to dissociate
from Ja

fed by Jana
COUNTERSEX HER
I write a script for DOLL

WHO SHE IS
HER STORY
SHE HAS TO TELL
WHAT IS MAKING HER EXOTIC
WHAT IS MAKING THE FICTIVE DESIRES GROW
HER STORY IS FICTIVE IS FANTASY IS AN ILLUSION IS ICONIC IS AN IDOL OF THE FEMALE SHAMELESS
DESIRABLE MAN-MADE PATRIARCHAL-MADE BINARY-MADE FIGURE
HER STORY HAS GROWN FROM THE DISSOCIATION TO JA
HER STORY HAS GROWN OUT OF EXPERIENCES FROM JANA
DOLL IS A DOLL IS A PUPPET
NOT PLAYED BY THE MALE
IS A BINARY-MADE POWER-RELATION-MADE
IS THERAPEUTIC TO THE MALE THAT MADE UP A FIGURE THAT DOESN´T EXIST
THAT MADE UP A DESIRE THEY FEAR


A SHOWROOM OF DESIRE
A SHOWROOM OF WHAT YOU´LL NEVER GET YOU´LL NEVER OWN
RULED BY POWER AND THEREFORE PAID


SHE IS FICTIONAL SHE IS YOUR DESIRE YOUR SEX
YOUR SEX IS FAKE
YOUR SEX IS PORN
YOUR SEX IS FICTIVE EROTICISM
YOU CAN´T GET NO SATISFACTION
But you’re trying to reproduce a structure that has no satisfaction
You’re trying to reproduce endings
You’re trying to reproduce
You’re building up you’re selling yourself your own addiction
DOLL is already with you but you need her body to invent yourself as an imaginary you wish to be
An imaginary you wish to be, the „what’s been sold to you“
sense yourself to be yourself yourself as the stereo male


Away with the perfume I thought
Screaming I thought
Help I thought
How to exit this I thought
This experiences that aren’t me
How to be an actor