Aphrodisiac
by Sean Shearer, Boulevard : Issue 100.
I bought a bottle of powdered seahorse pills
at a head shop,
where I haggled the price down
by five dollars, but still paid too much.
I bussed back to my apartment
and googled the subject: twenty million seahorses
ground down each year,
an…
“The medium is the message” ( McLuhan ). Such aphorism cannot be truer than for our aphrodisiac. Whether one gently applies lotion onto the body of oneself or their lover(s) as if to caress, or sips a cup of hot tea as part of the whole ritual, deliberately slowing down and thus increasing the…
Mediamatic plans to create a series of aphrodisiacs that is:
1) Queer - Targeting audience of different sexual orientations and physiques
2) Vegan - Instead of using animal male parts, using vegetal female or hermaphrodite parts as ingredients
3) Decolonial - Ingredients will be sourced from our…
Magdalena Akantisz, born in 1987, is an Austrian Designer focusing on graphics, experimental installations as well as olfactory & gustatory approaches to Design.
