Post-Cyber Live Programme: Eleni Ikoniadou, Mary Maggic, Cornelia Sollfrank, Anicka Yi

An afternoon of film, performative lectures and sound from artists engaging with diverse social and technological practices from biohacking and flavor chemistry to rituals of lamentation. 

Programme 

3D Screening: The Flavor Genome (2016) / 4pm 
Anicka Yi’s 3D film The Flavor Genome follows a commercial flavourist through the rainforests and jungles of the Amazon in search a rare and mythologised orchid. Extending Yi’s use of sensorial devices, beyond those of sight and sound, the potentials of touch, taste, smell and other biological attributes are brought into focus. 

Molecular Queering Agency / 4.30pm
Our world is filled with toxicities. Thanks to petrochemical, agricultural and pharmaceutical industries, these endocrine-disrupting molecules queer our bodies and the bodies of non-human species. This can be seen as a form of slow violence that is pervasive yet difficult to perceive, at the same time challenging society's prescribed notions of what is deemed normal and natural. 

Artist Mary Maggic’s Molecular Queering Agency performative workshop is a discursive exercise for living in a toxic world. It uses various methods of 'freak science' to extract hormones from urine, demonstrating the molecular colonisation of this 'alien' becoming. 

À la recherche de l’information perdue / 5.30pm 
On the other side of reality we encounter suspected heroes, leaks and phreaks, engineers of escape who control our secret desires. Rape can be performed in many ways. In a state of total transparency: what shall we eat, when society feeds upon the repressed? Knowing yourself means knowing what to look for. 

Artist, cyberfeminist and hacker Cornelia Sollfrank presents a performance lecture in which she enters in the realm of zeros and ones, of data and pure information, of ciphers, signifiers and figures. 

Her Voice / 6.30pm 
Artists and writers Eleni Ikoniadou and Demelza Toy Toy present a performative reading mapping the mythological, historical and future-oriented dimensions of the female voice through the cultural ritual of lamentation.

Participants 

Eleni Ikoniadou is a writer, researcher, teacher and practitioner specialising in digital media and sonic arts. She is founder and director of the Audio Culture Research Unit (ACRU), crew member of AUDINT and author of The Rhythmic Event (2014).

Mary Maggic is an artist and biohacker working at the intersection of biotechnology and cultural discourse. Their most recent projects Open Source Estrogen and Estrofem! Lab seek to subvert dominant biopolitical agents of hormonal management, knowledge production and anthropogenic toxicity. Maggic holds a BSA in Biology and Art from Carnegie Mellon University and a MS in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT Media Lab. 

Cornelia Sollfrank (PhD) is an artist, researcher and university lecturer who is based in Berlin. Recurring subjects in her artistic work in and about digital media and network culture are new forms of (political) organization, authorship and intellectual property, gender and techno-feminism. She was co-founder of the collectives women-and-technology, -Innen and the Old Boys Network and currently does research at Zürich University of the Arts in the field of art and commons.

Demelza Toy Toy is an artist working with performance, sound and collaborative modes of practice as strategies of resistance to narratives of cultural dominance. 

Anicka Yi, born 1971 Seoul, lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Life is Cheap, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2017), Jungle Stripe, Fridericianum, Kassel (2016) and 7,070,430K of Digital Spit, Kunsthalle Basel. In 2017 she participated in numerous group exhibitions including The Dream of Forms, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, 56 Artillery Lane, Raven Row, London and the Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Buy a single multibuy ticket to all of the PCFI events on 18 November—this includes What Can Post-Cyber Feminism Do For Reproductive Justice?, Black Feminism and Post-Cyber Feminism and Post-Cyber Live Programme: Eleni Ikoniadou, Mary Maggic, Cornelia Sollfrank, Anicka Yi—at a special price of £20 Non-Members/£10 Members