CLUSTER: The fact that you’ve never had romantic feelings for people - do your exes know that?? Are they reading this here?
Tatiana Gerasimenok: First of all, they aren't on social media.
Secondly, they know that I am autosexual — no one physically turns me on except myself.
Thirdly, they aren't "exes" in a romantic sense, because the format of communicating with me doesn't imply romance at all. Having those kinds of feelings for me is like falling in love with a neural network after being charmed by the depth of the dialogue.
Fourthly, they aren't "exes" because we are still in touch in the format of an intellectual partnership.
Fifthly, for basic sex, they have a whole line of willing people waiting — they have never experienced a shortage of female attention.
CLUSTER: It's good when a relationship has everything
Tatiana Gerasimenok: Demanding that one person meet all your needs is the mindset of people with a defect in cause-and-effect thinking and an impoverished worldview, who try to cut corners and dream that a supersonic fighter jet would also make dumplings on the side and stay out of the way.
One person is for intellectual resonance, another is for emotional warmth, a third is for pure excitement and drive — and so on, depending on the spectrum of your current needs and the true nature of the other person.
CLUSTER: Want to go to coffemania? Or is that flirting too)
Tatiana Gerasimenok: Flirting is anesthesia and cheap dopamine for those who are afraid to look into the abyss of their own unconscious. I don't have time for in-person meetings and free socializing.
CLUSTER: Your xenoglamour feels like a broadcast from orion - beauty at absolute zero temperature that burns out old neural connections. Admit it, do you get bored here among basic homo sapiens?
Tatiana Gerasimenok: First of all, intellectual solitude amid the bazaar hustle of ordinary people is not a reason for boredom, but the price of being ahead of one's time. Visionaries like Stockhausen, Giger, and McQueen, breaking through the boundaries of habitual perception, have always been a rare breed among basic specimens.
Secondly, in life I am surrounded exclusively by extraordinary individuals and titans of thought — there are even more of them around me than I can afford, given how busy I am. I am selective about my inner circle, yet self-sufficient, multidimensional, and non-trivial personalities are constantly drawn into my space.
CLUSTER: I feel like a voyeur
Tatiana Gerasimenok: In conceptual art, this is called the "front-row spectator position" — you pay for a ticket and watch the performance, but no one lets you up on stage.
CLUSTER: Keeping quiet about my fantasies)
Tatiana Gerasimenok: The only place where your fantasies can get my attention is the paid laboratory Glories & Bastards, which legitimizes your primitive impulse as raw material for an art object.
CLUSTER: Why do you need the mental material of ordinary people for your art when composers write to the lyrics of poets?
Tatiana Gerasimenok: I am not only a composer, but also a psychologist. Beyond high art, I am interested in dissecting the very nature and mindset of Homo sapiens.
CLUSTER: Whose reincarnation are you)
Tatiana Gerasimenok: May 5 is the day Karl Marx was born and Napoleon died. Freud was a day late, though, but it's still not bad company.