Anna Dossmann
Are animals cisgender and straight ? That's what animal documentaries would make us believe. Wildlife Leaflets is a series of three short videos in which animals ‘hack’ the documentaries they are the subject of, to assert their queerness with fervour and humour. Wildlife Leaflets are both a critique and an invitation to see the world differently.
They question the way queer humans and non-humans are described, analysed and stigmatised by scientific and media discourse, which always imposes its cisgender and heterosexual perspective. Through editing, collage and digital art, these videos attempt to give an inter-species voice to queer, trans and intersex lives.
But beyond criticism, they are an invitation to reconsider our relationship with living beings. From a queer perspective, the aim is to blur the boundaries between human and non-human, to imagine inter-species alliances. Wildlife Leaflets are also inspired by the practice of reappropriating insults and images to tell the stories of living beings who resist the objectification of dominant discourses. The films reuse the images of cisgender, heterosexual and colonial images to mock them and offer new perspectives.
Andrea Quinto
When will it stop, is a found footage video that uses internet culture to explore itself, -its own addictive superficial nature, portrayals of “femininity” via trends/branding- and the worshipping relationship users have with the internet. The structure of this project is best described as a chaotic collage consisting of memes, “girl internet" and pornographic content to maintain viewers’ attention. Although the tone of this video is critical, there’s still an admiration for the internet and its ability to continually keep us entranced and distracted.
Bailey Keogh
TECHNO HOLISTIC MEDICINE (noun) is characterised by constant innovation, the digitisation of information and communication, and the growing importance of digital networks/platforms specifically within the space of spiritual and holistic health. Technology mediates our perceptions of our bodies and our experiences from Webmd to TikTok influencers. However, there is no impetus for tech/media outlets to act on behalf of the security and health of the general public. Simple solutions are seductive tools of misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories, allowing followers a sense of calm from the chaos of complex problems.
The treatments frequently discussed are essentially a cultural appropriation soup of Indigenous and/or Asian practices blended together to promote the easiest and most monetizable elements to audiences craving care and spiritual fulfillment.
Techno Holistic Medicine is a video, sound and sculpture installation. The piece is not a criticism of the toxic spiritual wellness followers, who are often themselves vulnerable communities, or their profiteers who have succumbed to septic capitalistic pursuits. The piece attempts to draw sympathy to those swept up in a systemic, informational issue rapidly outgrowing the dark corners of the internet
Sofia Angst
Trivakra moves through a child's memories, intersected by gender biotechnologies that reshape their body and their history. The gushing syringe of a travesti ritual of hormonal transmutation opens a glitch in the matrix of gender and video, where bones and skins are dematerialized into cyberspace.