On the example of two Eastern European activist art collectives, Agata’s essay explores the ontology of a mask as a collective face used to fight oppressive ideologies.
Body, Space, and Gender in the Mixed Reality Environment of Becoming Dragon (Micha Cárdenas, 2008) – A Performance in Second Life
In this essay, Agáta Hošnova explores the environment of mixed realities as experienced by Colombian-American trans-femme artist Micha Cárdenas in her performance Becoming Dragon (2008), which took place in an online and freely accessible virtual world, Second Life; the artist fully immersed for 365 hours during the time when she was undergoing hormone replacement therapy from male to female. In this context, digital worlds epitomise a sort of liminal space between the real world and the ‘artificially created’ online one – it is placed on the edge of the two.
QUEERING OF THE SPACE AND TIME IN AFROFUTURISM AND CYBERFEMINISM
An essay looking at different modes of embodiment in these two ideological concepts, and their ways of shifting our usual perceptions of spatio-temporal realities.