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.
