Gregor Jahner

Gag Light explores the overlap between sexuality and design and translates subversion and dominance into material and function. By adapting classic elements of interior design such as leather and steel, the project highlights BDSM as a sexual practice and brings it out of the darkroom and into our living rooms. The role play of furnishings and sexual practice becomes a performative act, blurring the boundaries between object and subject.

Photo Credits:

Photostudio at Die Angewandte in Vienna
Pascal Schrattenecker

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Gag Light is a domestic lamp that can be used and worn like a gag ball. The project questions the connection between materiality and design within the context of sex and gender narratives, seeking possibilities to shift their meanings. By incorporating classic elements of interior design into private spaces alongside aspects of marginalized sexual practices, the project aims to deconstruct stereotypes, especially challenging binary thinking about gender. Intentionally taking a provocative approach, it disrupts our visual habits and offers new perspectives on design within the context of sex-sensitive topics.

The project thus explores the possibilities of making other perceptions of gender identities and sexual desires tangible through design and materiality. Materials such as leather and stainless steel establish a connection to classic interiors in private spaces and the BDSM scene, blurring the boundaries between the natural and the unspeakable, the acceptable and the deviant, and also the private and the public.

The LED operates on a rechargeable battery with a duration of 2 hours and can be charged through a magnetic connection. The light can be switched on and off using a push button on the back of the ball, which can be pressed either with your finger or with your tongue.

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Photo credits: Photostudio at Die Angewandte in Vienna, Pascal Schrattenecker