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Thanks Kathy and WhiteFeather for your contributions. Your comments
about control, violence and management have provoked a lot of thoughts,
which I will discuss further. Last week was a trouble shooting week for
the show and recovery from the conference. Control, violence and
management indeed!
This is a bit late, but I want to introduce the last mess of guests for
October...
*Helen Pynor* is an artist whose practice explores philosophically and
experientially ambiguous zones such as the life-death boundary. Her work
is informed by in-depth residencies in scientific institutions, most
recently The Francis Crick Institute, London; The Max Planck Institute
of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden; and The Heart and Lung
Transplant Unit, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. Pynor frequently
collaborates with members of the broader community whose embodied
experiences connect with the themes of her work. Pynor has exhibited
widely nationally and internationally including at The National Taiwan
Museum of Fine Arts; The National Centre for Contemporary Art, Russia;
Science Gallery Dublin; Science Gallery London; FACT, Liverpool UK;
Wellcome Collection, London; and The Australian Centre for Photography.
She has received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, and
national awards in Australia. Pynor holds a Bachelor of Science (1st
Class Hons), a Bachelor of Visual Arts, and a PhD. Pynor lives and works
in Sydney and London.
*Marietta Radomska* is a feminist philosopher and transdisciplinary
Gender Studies scholar. She works as a Postdoc at the Department of
Thematic Studies – unit: Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden,
within the research area of Gender, Nature, Culture and The
Posthumanities Hub. Since 1 July 2018 Radomska has also been a Visiting
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Cultures, University of
Helsinki, Finland. She holds a PhD in Gender Studies (Linköping
University, SE), Research MA in Gender and Ethnicity (Utrecht
University, NL) and MA in Philosophy specialised in Social Communication
(Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan,PL). Currently, Radomska works on
the research project “Ecologies of Death: Environment, Body and Ethics
in Contemporary Art”, funded by The Swedish Research Council
(Vetenskapsrådet) International Postdoc Grant. She is the founder of The
Eco- and Bioart Research Network, co-director of The Posthumanities Hub,
a founding member of Queer Death Studies Network, co-founder of The
International Network for Ecocritical and Decolonial Research, and
co-coordinator of GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced
Transdisciplinary Gender Studies research strand “Death Studies:
Queerfeminist Materialist Perspectives” (together with Nina Lykke and
Tara Mehrabi). Radomska is the author of the monograph Uncontainable
Life: A Biophilosophy of Bioart (2016).
*Mary Maggic* is a non-binary artist working at the intersection of
biotechnology, cultural discourse, and civil disobedience. Their work
spans documentary video, scientific methodology, public workshopology,
performance, and large scale installation. Maggic's most recent projects
Open Source Estrogen and Estrofem! Lab generate DIY protocols for the
extraction and detection of estrogen hormone from bodies and
environments, demonstrating its micro-performativity and potential for
mutagenesis, i.e. gender-hacking. They hold a BSA in Biological Science
and Art from Carnegie Mellon University and a MS in Media Arts and
Sciences from MIT Media Lab and have had the privilege to exhibit and/or
perform at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), OK Center (Linz), Haus
der elektronischen Kunst (Basel), Jeu de Paume (Paris), Institute of
Contemporary Arts (London), and Spring Workshop (Hong Kong).
*Mike Bianco* is an artist, curator, researcher, activist, cook, and
beekeeper. Bianco’s art practice is invested in socially engaged art,
and focuses on issues of politics, environment, sustainability,
community activism, energy decline, and the impending “century of
crisis.” Bianco’s work has been exhibited in numerous venues, ranging
from the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, in Western Australia, to
the Kenpoku Art Festival in Ibaraki, Japan.
*Sarah Hermanutz* is a Canadian artist working at the intersections of
performance, technology, and ecology. Her sculptures, installations, and
live performance experiments are preoccupied with wetlands, amphibious
creatures, and the mysteries of social cognition. Together with dancers,
audiences, musicians, and other human/non-human ‘props’, she explores
confusion, affection, vulnerability, survival, horror, terror, desire,
and the aesthetic seductions of myth-making. She is a founding member
of Lacuna Lab, and is based in Berlin and Weimar, Germany. Her
performances and projects have been presented in Canada, the USA,
Australia, and across Europe.
Take it away...
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Co-Convenor Quite Frankly: Its a Monster Conference 18-19 October 2018
Curator This Mess We're In 13 October - 2 November 2018 Unhallowed Arts
Festival 2018
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