THE DEMOCRATIC ERECTION
starring Marina Valie

Live internet performance - Streetlevel Gallery, Glasgow - 14. november 1997

Thanks to Simon Yuill, David Sandreuter, Elevator, Helen Hemsley


PITCH

A stripper is hired to take off her clothes in the gallery space.
In front of her, a computer and a camera.
The footage is broadcasted live on the internet.

In the gallery space the public is able to see the stripper through a window,
and through the internet site. They can communicate to the stripper via a text box

On the internet the public is able to see the stripper and communicate to the stripper via a text box.
The users who has the CUseeme video fascility was able to send video to the site.
Parellel to the video of the hired stripper, they participated with likewise naked footage.


The event lasted for one hour. When we turned off. The site was still running with four different users.
The users on the internet did not know of the gallery situation.




PARTICIPATORS:

STUFF: audience at the gallery space in Streetlevel (no video)
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: stripper in office space (video signal)
brooklyn ny: unknown (video)
Hidday Jahan: unknown (video)
kelly: unknown (no video)
LoveLord: unknown (video)
MM: unknown (no video)
Os: unknown (video)
RnB-NM: unknown (video)
vulture: unknown (video)
Warped World: unknown (video)









TRANSCRIPT FROM THE PERFORMANCE

STUFF: marina - I’m here to break you in, you’re a stripper, so strip please, all clothes and that’s it baby, chiao
vulture: hi kelly
STUFF: kelly, vulture, can we see you?
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: ok, you want strip you get it
kelly: hi everyone
brooklyn ny: there are lights in the houses across the street...
STUFF: marina - I’m here too, please go close to the camera and take off your jacket real sl o wwwww
STUFF: warped world can we seeyou?
brooklyn ny: i wish you would keep your clothes on.
brooklyn ny: please don’t strip. PLEASE DO NOT DO IT!
Warped World: do you get color ?
Hidday Jahan: DO IT DO IT
STUFF: black and white baby
STUFF: jahan - can we see YOU
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: we seem to have a conflict of interest going on here
Hidday Jahan: That is dialog, not conflict!
brooklyn ny: if you take off one article of clothing i will MURDER MYSELF
Hidday Jahan: Does the stripper have a name and a keybord as well as underwear?
STUFF: are you gonna throw yourself out that window brooklyn?
Warped World: let me see a naked shoulder
brooklyn ny: YES strait out into the passing traffic.
Hidday Jahan: let me see a toe, greased
vulture: is it cold at streetlevel
STUFF: yeah, the stripper is no other than Marina Valie, she has a keyboard and a modem and knows how to use them
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: sorry no grease, jahan
STUFF: kelly come on show yourself
Hidday Jahan: darn it.
vulture: but is it colllllddd
Hidday Jahan: come closer to us Marina!
STUFF: you want to see you gotta let yourself be seen, come on guys get those cameras online
Hidday Jahan: Hidday _has no camera_!
vulture: can ny lower
vulture: ... send rates
STUFF: hello MM
MM: hi
RnB-NM: hello
Hidday Jahan: please, the toe, the toe
vulture: mmmmmmarina -hi there
vulture: how are your senses tonight
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: hello vulturre, where have you gone?
vulture: are you cold
STUFF: MM what’s your pleasure what do you desire from Marina?
brooklyn ny: is there music playing where marina disrobes? and if so what type of music?
vulture: just to be friends
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: no, I am hot, thanks
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: yes, good music
STUFF: the sex pistols, whaddya think brooklyn?
Hidday Jahan: hot is good. we like hot in London.
vulture: so that arousal is not from cold
RnB-NM: what are we seeing you thru Democrat
STUFF: you can see through all you like
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: come on people this is not very democratic
STUFF: warped world, don’t be shy come in front of your camera
Hidday Jahan: you just want to take your clothes off.
brooklyn ny: i thought maybe marina was jammin to morrisey.
Hidday Jahan: I have asked to see your toe many times now.
vulture: :)
RnB-NM: come closer to the camera demo
vulture: Marine, from here you have 3 heads
STUFF: which one do you like best?
vulture: and 6 arms and 3 torsos
Hidday Jahan: yes, for me too.
Hidday Jahan: yes, this is Mutant Marina
brooklyn ny: i do not like democracy all that much.
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: toe time
Hidday Jahan: yay!
STUFF: hey vulture like your style
vulture: thank you
STUFF: kelly you are very very quiet
Warped World: let me see legs , please
brooklyn ny: is marina the person typing from democratic erection?
STUFF: yeah
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: yes, this is marian
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: oops, marina i mean
vulture: Marina, what are you dancing to
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: groovy portishead
vulture: are you barefoot
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: no, but i can be
vulture: one foot at a time
Hidday Jahan: DO IT! AND THEN THE PANTS!
vulture: - if you want
vulture: oh, puhhh-leazze
vulture: ;)
brooklyn ny: are you having a pleasant time?
vulture: marina, how long does the cd have to go?
Hidday Jahan: I feel guilty now.
STUFF: are you?
vulture: live smacking on the net, for Hidday!
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: ages, yet
vulture: 3-minute pop songs...
brooklyn ny: yes
kelly: 25
Hidday Jahan: But now I feel Catholic Guilt. Truly.
vulture: hi kelly
STUFF: warped world, we haven’t heard much from you, what do you want?
brooklyn ny: i am nervous.
vulture: - is that a surname or fore...
vulture: Marina, is that dress supported
Warped World: let me see legs , please
STUFF: lovelord, the name is cool, but can’t see your face
Hidday Jahan: I think Marina is going to take her clothes off whatever we say.
brooklyn ny: isn’t anyone interested in this lovely view of brooklyn?
vulture: :)
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: the valie has a better view
kelly: go girl
vulture: the valley
LoveLord: it will come up in a min
Hidday Jahan: yes yes, the views are good from here
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: no, the valie
Warped World: now without the stockings , please
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: hey lovelord
Hidday Jahan: Ooh.
STUFF: we see you, lovelord, give us a smile, go on
brooklyn ny: is valie your last name?
Hidday Jahan: let them come off please. yes.
LoveLord: hi
Hidday Jahan: i don’t want your smurf vulture person. take it away!
vulture: hi, my friend’s frothing at the mouth
STUFF: got any requests lovelord?
vulture: Hi STIFF
LoveLord: ere are the ladies?
vulture: laddies or ladies?
STUFF: what do you prefer?
LoveLord: yes breasts ;-)
vulture: nice beehive , ny
Warped World: lets see your butt , please
vulture: which one?
STUFF: cool shadows brooklyn
LoveLord: sorrection or something
kelly: go away lovelord, now!!!
vulture: who else is grabbing screendumps
Hidday Jahan: arghh.
kelly: go away
kelly: go away
STUFF: jahan is that an arghh of joy or pain?
kelly: go away lovelord
LoveLord: why I just got here?
Hidday Jahan: oh, both my angel, both
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: hello, remember marina?
Hidday Jahan: i am bitten by penitence
LoveLord: Sorry slow computer
Hidday Jahan: Now please take all your clothes off. Before I have a coronary.
kelly: i remember marina
LoveLord: does not respond to my typing fast enough
STUFF: lovelaord, what are you wearing?
brooklyn ny: i remember california.
vulture: hi marina
LoveLord: ok as u wish
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: who is warped world anyway?
LoveLord: more skin
brooklyn ny: marina, do u have a live audience?
STUFF: hi marina, i saw you from the entrance dancing, you look really sexy
STUFF: hey all you out there, would you prefer to be on the end of a modem or near to the flesh?
LoveLord: stuff u m or f?
Hidday Jahan: I am not interested in these toys of yours vulture.
STUFF: marina, we can see you through the pink glass ohh it’s so nice, you look great
brooklyn ny: marina, can we bring sexual political discourseinto this?
vulture: they’re a collection of fallen-off-the-ends-of-condoms
Hidday Jahan: Discourse shmiscourse. I want FLESH.
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: so, then its ok for me to show you my butt, then, warped world?
vulture: ooh me too
Hidday Jahan: Yes, the butt.
STUFF: marina - lovelaord is stripping faster than you, what’s the problem?
vulture: his hands are occupied
STUFF: lovelord you got a great body let’s see more please
Hidday Jahan: Oh my god.
LoveLord: ok be ready for 10"
vulture: obv in high-res, then
vulture: or, low-res rather
kelly: democratic erection is too sexxxy
vulture: wait til my granny sees what I’ve been doing with her
vulture: computer
Hidday Jahan: That is offensive to me sensibilties
Hidday Jahan: lovelord is beating his meat.
brooklyn ny: we r back.
Hidday Jahan: I should put it away if I were you, it isn’t very big you know.
LoveLord: hope the ladies like
Hidday Jahan: Will he ‘do it’ into the lense? That’s what I’m wondering.
LoveLord: +b+igger than yours huidday
Hidday Jahan: No, Hidday is very large, that’s for sure. ;-)
Hidday Jahan: I can see she’s determined to take off her clothes.
STUFF: lovelord, do you do a lot of that kind of exercise?
LoveLord: all talk no show
Hidday Jahan: yes, yes, I love to beat it hard.
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: well, warped world seems to be the only one with requests
Hidday Jahan: No, I have requests. Only I cannot speak them.
LoveLord: hehe no
LoveLord: stuff u m or f?
STUFF: oh lovelord your picture is a vlittle fuzzy
Hidday Jahan: It has got bigger!
Hidday Jahan: Now I am impressed.
Hidday Jahan: Will Marina play with her breasts, now, please?
LoveLord: thanks. :-)
Hidday Jahan: IF I had one like that I would take it out as well.
LoveLord: what do the ladies think?
Hidday Jahan: I _am_ a lady!
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: beautiful
vulture: will marina caress her nipples, please
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: what happened to warped world?
Hidday Jahan: yes, the nipples, yes yes
vulture: anyone got any good jokes?
LoveLord: Thats why +I call myself the lovelord
vulture: very nice
Hidday Jahan: This is a no joke situation/
LoveLord: kelly see what your missing
vulture: do you shave, marina
Hidday Jahan: Yes, shaving, that’s a good subject.
brooklyn ny: i want you to put your close back on
Hidday Jahan: Does she / doesn’t she: classic binary. Like it.
brooklyn ny: opps clothes back ON
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: shave what?
Hidday Jahan: No clothes on,
vulture: the palms of your hands...
Hidday Jahan: let’s resolve this shaving issue.
kelly: shut up brooklyn
vulture: only joking
vulture: you don’t
vulture: well, maybe lower..
Hidday Jahan: What’s that all over Lovelord’s hand?
vulture: underneath?
LoveLord: brooklyn why is your pict all white?
Hidday Jahan: down below?
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: underneath what?
Hidday Jahan: you know... ‘down below’!
brooklyn ny: because i came all over the camera
Hidday Jahan: you PIG
LoveLord: hahahah
vulture: :D
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: are you watching or not?
Hidday Jahan: very much so.
vulture: I think they’re wa**ing
Hidday Jahan: All eyes are on you. Does that make you happy?
vulture: incl one-eyes
Hidday Jahan: Master of Double Entedre.
kelly: thanks for everything democratic erection
vulture: can someone pass on a message to Simon Yuill @ Streetlevel for me, please - Marina?
Hidday Jahan: um, Entdenre.
kelly: how about a round of thanks for marina
Hidday Jahan: ta
vulture: clapclapclapclap
brooklyn ny: hidday jahan, if all eyes should make her happy, why don’t you send some video too? don’t you want to be happy?
vulture: thank you , Marina
Hidday Jahan: stiff round of applause from London
vulture: [;
Hidday Jahan: I have no video possibilities brooklyn ny.
vulture: not even bits of you?
Hidday Jahan: What do you mean, bits? Do you think I would elect to take and scan pictures of my genitalia?
LoveLord: erection u like my pict?
vulture: no... armpits, that sort of thing - gums, etc
Hidday Jahan: NOW SHOW US YOUR CUNT
brooklyn ny: marina, are you having a good time?
Hidday Jahan: no, no gums.
vulture: bye bye nice skin
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: i am having a great time thanks brooklyn
Hidday Jahan: I always regret what I say after. It’s the nature of the game.
Hidday Jahan:
brooklyn ny: you did a good job democratic erection.
vulture: show more derriere?
kelly: thanks marina, thanks for the show,
vulture: Marina, more?
Hidday Jahan: I think that’s the end.
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: pleasure kelly
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: vulture, more what?
vulture: of you -whatever you like
Hidday Jahan: Vulture is all disappointed now because he’s been so reserved.
vulture: no, not at all
vulture: you say ‘he’
Hidday Jahan: Oh, sorry. I thought I had seen your dick...
Hidday Jahan: but that was someone else.
brooklyn ny: next time can we have a pregnant woman of color who works in a sweatshop or something?
vulture: wasn’t mine
Hidday Jahan: yes, brooklyn. That’s a proposition.
vulture: what colour -purple/orange/..?
Hidday Jahan: I will see if I can get it together.
Hidday Jahan: It was black and white.
Hidday Jahan: Oh, I see, the woman.
vulture: hi again marina
vulture: and again
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: oh warped world where have you been?
vulture: too close - unfocussed
vulture: pull out..?
vulture: hi
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: picky
brooklyn ny: how much were you paid marina?
brooklyn ny: i think you should get paid more.
Hidday Jahan: everyone is distracted now.
vulture: hi
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: distracted by what?
Hidday Jahan: you.
vulture: wondering how far you’ll go
Hidday Jahan: yes, yes.
vulture: I know you’ll go far, but tonight?
vulture: still portishead?
brooklyn ny: thank you marina, we have to go now.
vulture: isn’t there a camera near your keyboard, Marina, for as you lean over it
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: still portishead, and I can’t go very far if no one asks me to
STUFF: marina its 2200 >tothemasses<
Hidday Jahan: I want you to do something which will make you ashamed for the rest of your life.
vulture: what’re the peepil in the audience doing/saying?
vulture: do they like you too
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: i have no shame
Hidday Jahan: Oh, more’s the pity.
vulture: do you have hair by your labia
Hidday Jahan: Perhaps we should set out our jurisdiciton over your body...
STUFF: lotte lotte hvor er du?
vulture: are you silky smooth there
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: have to go now, bye bye frm marina valie
Hidday Jahan: ... what are the exact parameters?
brooklyn ny: before we go, could you take that chair and throw it and pretend you are killing a man?
vulture: i like the way you brush your hair bakk
brooklyn ny: please throw the chair quick!
vulture: ok
Hidday Jahan: But the parameters god damn it.
STUFF: hullu bullu
vulture: tschuess
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: hullu bullu sode dreng
brooklyn ny: yes yes yes yes thank you!!!!!
vulture: bye brroklyn
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: oh parameters, a bit dull, really
vulture: bye Marina
brooklyn ny: bye bye...
Hidday Jahan: so long, bye bye
STUFF: farvel
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: tak vir dit warped world
STUFF: hello marina, my name is kirsty, please could you dance around the pole?
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: its not a pole its a big bright willy
STUFF: kirsty says, could you please dance with the big bright willy?
vulture: oh silly me...of course it is
STUFF: marina we’re going home, goodnight.
DEMOCRATIC ERECTION: goodnight
vulture: goodnight