Lotte Louise de Jong
Stuck? Click Here
Curated by
Emily Hsiang-Yun Huang
Exhibition
1 October–29 October 2025
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In the niche corners of the internet lies the fetishized porn genre of “stuck,” where female bodies are wedged into sofas, office chairs or washing machines, immobilized for a fantasy of control-through-surrender. Lotte’s artwork slows these clips down, suspending the moment before release. In doing so, it shifts attention away from sexual climax to the condition of being “stuck” itself, a metaphor for our entrapment in digital platforms.
Decelerating the pornographic loop reveals its kinship with compulsive infinite scrolling. Both hinge on embodied movement, where platforms inscribe their tempo into our bodies, short-circuiting our brains with hyperactive reward loops that manufacture desire and then amplify it. This kind of desire doesn’t lead to genuine pleasure or release, but remains suspended, caught in feedback loops: a gooning by design, overstimulated, caught between anticipation and satisfaction.
By reframing “stuck” as online advertisements, hijacking the grammar of clickbait and banners. Stuck? Click Here parodies the economy of desire. It reminds us that “stuck” is no longer just a fetish but a default mode of existence online, where even the promise of getting unstuck arrives in the form of self-help clickbait.
《卡住了嗎？點我》
在網路的角落中，存在一種小眾的情色影片類型「卡住」(stuck)。物化的女性身體被卡進沙發、辦公椅或洗衣機裡，動彈不得，創造出一種因投降而獲取控制的幻想。荷蘭藝術家Lotte的藝術作品將這些影片的速度放慢，使「釋放」之前的時間懸置下來。如此一來，作品將注意力從性高潮轉移到「卡住」本身，作為我們被數位平台困住的隱喻。
慢速循環播放的色情影片與我們強迫性地、無止境滑手機屬於同一種類型的狀態。兩者都仰賴身體的動作，平台將它們的節奏刻進我們的身體，過度活躍的獎勵迴圈使我們的大腦短路，這種機制量產慾望，再將其放大。這種慾望並不通往真正的快感或釋放，而是持續懸而未決，困在回饋迴圈之中，形成一種設計使然的慢性自慰（gooning） ——受到過度刺激的身體狀態，使我們被困在「期待」與「滿足」之間。
透過將「卡住」色情片轉變為網路廣告並挪用釣魚式標題與橫幅的語法，《卡住了嗎？點我》戲仿了慾望的經濟學。它提醒我們，「卡住」已不再只是癖好，而是線上存有的內建狀態，因為甚至連脫困的希望，都以自救釣魚廣告的形式出現。
THE AUTHOR
Lotte Louise de Jong is a new media artist from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her work spans film, installation and online spaces, exploring how digital culture and the economy shape identity, intimacy and desire. She is interested in how these experiences are mediated, staged and commodified through screens, and how underlying social, cultural and economic structures influence our daily lives. By developing her own tools and working across both digital and physical spaces, she makes visible the often concealed mechanisms of mediated life, inviting audiences to reflect on their own participation without moralism or dogma.
THE CURATOR
Hsiang-Yun Huang is a researcher and visual artist from Taiwan. Her research interests focus on the relationship between body and technology from the perspective of postcolonialism, cyberfeminism and digital materialism. Projects she has curated include Net.Open public program and www.counterarchive.commons at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, IMPAKT Festival-Our Terms, Our Conditions, Taipei Digital Art Festival-Fake It Real , Embodied Interface. Her dance films often derived from her poetry on the vulnerability of (non-)human existence, with a focus on collective mourning and digital intimacy. She is supported by the Mondriaan Artist Start Grant(NL) and National Culture and Arts Foundation(TW). Her works have been exhibited at the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Cinedance Festival at Eye Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Ars Electronica, Kikk Festival, and panke.gallery.
CREDITS
Author: Lotte Louise de Jong
Curator and author of the text: Emily Hsiang-Yun Huang
Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana and KUNSTSURFER Association, 2025