Department of DIGITAL ARTS/ Ruth Schnell
How do
bodies queer at the molecular level? How is this queering inextricably tied to industrial capitalism? Combining body and gender
politics and environmental toxicity, we begin to unpack the concept of “open source estrogen,” the underlying premise that
hormonal molecules are ubiquitously all around us - available for us to hack, mutate, and become-with. Through this process
of unboxing their molecular mystique, we see that even in our sublime sea of toxic molecules, it is still a sea of co-llaboration.
Online via Zoom:
Mary Maggic (b. Los Angeles, '91) is a nonbinary artist working at
the intersection of hormones, body and gender politics, and ecological alienations. Maggic frequently uses “biohacking” as
a xeno-feminist practice of care that holds the potential to demystify invisible systems of molecular biopower. Maggic is
a current member of the global network Hackteria - Open Source Biological Art, the tactical theater collective Aliens in Green,
the Asian feminist association Mai Ling Vienna, as well as a contributor to the radical syllabus project Pirate Care and to
the online Cyberfeminism Index.
