The Fellatio Modification Project

Kuang-Yi Ku

2014-2015

Mixed Media

The Fellatio Modification Project aims to restructure the oral cavity with the technologies commonly used in dentistry and tissue engineering, thereby helping gay people enjoy greater pleasant sensation from fellatio. Most medical technologies are designed for the purposes of healing diseases and restoring health. However, this project employs these technologies to enhance the functions of human oral cavity. According to dentistry, the oral cavity performs three major functions: beauty, articulation, and ingestion. This project focuses on the fourth function which is omitted in the textbook – homosexual copulation. The pleasant sensation derived from sexual behavior has long been the most instinctive desire of human beings. This project confines the scope to the gay community, wherefrom it investigates the relationship among sex, technology, humankind, and society in the process of pursuing pure physiological pleasure. This project also seeks to explore the possibilities and the limits of body modification.

Kuang-Yi Ku

Artist Introduction

Born in 1985, Taipei, Taiwan, Kuang-Yi Ku is the co-founder of Ouroboros Organic Organism of O and a member of TW BioArt. He earned his master’s degrees from the Graduate School of Dentistry, National Yang Ming University and the Graduate School of Communications Design, Shih Chien University. He also earned his bachelor’s degree from the School of Dentistry, Kaohsiung Medical University, and therefore has the duality of status as a dentist and visual artist. In addition to creating visual artworks, he also creates and promotes bio-art, trying to open up the possibility for the combination of arts and sciences. His works not only focus on clinical medicine, human body, and gender studies, but also address the philosophical questions embedded in scientific fields, through which the artist contemplates the relationships among technologies, individuals, and human society.