Xenofeminism
Xenofeminism (XF) is a gender abolitionist, anti-naturalist, technomaterialist form of posthumanism, initiated by the working group Laboria Cuboniks. It is a world-building project working from the assumption that any society worth constructing would take feminism as a foundational principle. It is a project that aims to infect a wide range of fields, and operates on the assumption that any meaningful change will happen at a range of scales and across a range of disciplines.
In 2015 Laboria Cuboniks collectively wrote Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation. You can read the full text here. Website designed by Patricia Reed.
This is a short lecture by Helen Hester titled 'The Body as Technology: Putting Gender to Work' and another by Diann Bauer introducing the idea of Xenotemporality. It was recorded for the dance festival in Bergen, Norway called Oktoberdans, 2020. The lectures were edited by Diann Bauer. The Q&A was live and is not included here. Both Hester and Bauer both wear masks created by Anna Engelhardt in collaboration with Medina Bazargali.
Collaborative three screen video by Laboria Cuboniks (video-Diann Bauer, Sound-Katrina Burch with vocals performed by Joy Mariama Smith, Script compiled by Patricia Reed). Originally produced for The Future of Demonstration, season 1: VERMÖGEN, 2017, Vienna, reworked for the Post-Cyber Feminist International at the ICA London organized by Helen Hester and Rosalie Doubal.
This is 5 min video (view here) gives a brief description of the project from the perspective of one of its original members. Video by Diann Bauer.
Updated-updating-update... as installed as part of The Future of Demonstration, season 1: VERMÖGEN, 2017, Vienna
Looping video originally done for the Bard Centre for Curatorial Studies journal aCCsSions in 2016. It plays on political scientist Jodi Dean's quote “Goldman Sachs doesn't care if you raise chickens”. Video Diann Bauer.