Spiritual and physical indulgence come together in this suit. It is made to be worn underneath the clothes on the naked body. It contains four vibrators, a vibrating dildo and touch sensors that are situated so as to correspond to the points on the body that are touched when you make a sign of the cross. Touch sensors on the shoulders activate the vibrators placed on the stomach and thighs, while the touch sensor situated on the stomach is directly connected with the dildo.

In ancient civilizations sex was not restricted only to the intimate, but also belonged to the public sphere of life. Numerous religious ecstasies were linked to sexual ecstasy. The orgasm itself, the delight of love-making, was explained through the prism of God. Simultaneously a sensation and an act which creates new life – what could be closer to God than this?

It is very hard to connect spiritual progress and contemporary life style. To satisfy the spiritual, one has to abandon physical indulgence, and to please one’s physical appetites, it is often necessary to ignore the spiritual principles.

The sensors situated at the points that are touched upon making the sign of the cross change this experience, leading you from the spiritual presence of God to a physical sensation. After making love with God, your church visits are never going to be the same again.

The work was produced at the workshop ‘Ecstatic bodies in Cyberspace – on the body politics in art and technology’, which took place in  Belgrade in April 2008, and was led by Stahl Stenslie.