TRAFO Centre for Contemporary Art in Szczecin, together with technofeminist performer Marthe Van Dessel, are pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition Trigering electro-inducing Spasms, that she he developed with ooooo during her residency at the TEKHNÉ – Be Aware of Sound international residency program.
Trigering electro-inducing Spasms, presents a collection of the hard, soft and wet ware artifacts and devices, as well as the documentation of the series of actions, that were implemented during the six-year trajectory of PAN PAN PAN. This public performative interfaces project, proposes artistic interventions to expose radio waves as a critical natural resource exploited by patriarchal and neoliberal technologies.
The students from the Academy of Art in Szczecin (sound art & curatorial studies) will once a week (details to come soon) activate the public performative interface with the participation of the public, who will traverse a journey to radio, electromagnetic waves and alternative technofeminist processes.
How can one’s own body sends bio-electric signals and discharge ? (Isabel Bur Raty). How can electricity be measured of anaerobic bacteria living in wet soil in the bottom of the Oder River and Laguna? (Sunjoolee) How can we restore our relation to electrons and energy by rectifying alternate current? (ON3MCR)Â
The exhibition, performance and lab sessions are on the intersections of art, technofeminism, digital ethnography and parascience.
ooooo (pronoun: we) is a transuniversal constellation since 1998, that initiates, mediates and facilitates, creates and takes over projects and encourages thinking, reflection and action in relation to relevant techno-social issues. Their ‘open’ network inspires participatory processes, mutual learning and collective emancipation.
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ON3MCR is the radio call sign of Marthe Van Dessel, the host of ooooo. She is a technoactivist, pedagogue and performer which creates interfaces, writes protocols and conceives devices for audio-virtual performative events. By initiating ‘bodies’ in non-hegemonic relations to hard-, soft- & wetware, she explores strategies of (digital) re-affection.
Isabel Burr Raty explores the interstices between the organic and the artificial, in order to re-think the memory of the future and blur the limits between fiction and reality. By looking into ancestral knowledge and official scientific facts, about the meaning and practice of matter, territory and healing.
Sunjoo Lee is an interdisciplinary artist working in crossovers of art, technology, and ecology. Her fascination is in diverging the use of electronics and digital tools beyond human interest. Her works often explore topics such as; tools for more-than-human philosophy, emergence, biomimicry, future forms of symbiosis, and permacomputing.
and Ana Kulak, Alex Libertad, Tosia Pilinow, Radosław Jasikowski, Julia Halas, Weronika Krawczyk
Curated by Zorka Wollny
Coordinated by Andrzej Witczak
