Code a body for resistance!
Build networks of capacity!
We live in a future ordered by colonialism, depleted by capitalism, simplified by whiteness, haunted by the logics of population. According to the internet, it’s the worst possible timeline. What better time to imagine things otherwise: other futures, other pasts, other relations, other desires, other stories?
The #cyborgsandbox is a place and an event for embodied imaginings of other futures. Futures in which Black rights to bodily integrity and Indigenous sovereignty over lands-waters-airs take priority over settler-colonial resource hoarding. Futures where the agency of lands and spirits and non-human organisms are recognized and respected.
What role will bodies and technologies – and voluntary cyborg conjunctions of the two – play in such imagined futures? Playful experimentation and material demonstration in the #cyborgsandbox will point anthropologists in new directions. Collective crafting of speculative stories about pasts yet to come offer a way to rewrite our expectations of progress, change, and decline.
The sandbox will be a playful space where you can use the materials available – or those you bring to contribute to the happening – to build your prototype. Think about how you would wear it, what body systems it would adjust/extend/augment, where and when you would wear it, if it has a practical purpose or sensory purpose or expressive purpose.
The gallery will be a space to share what you make. Diagram it, photograph it, sketch it — share what you made with #AAACASCA and posterity. Share the object’s future/past narrative in as much or little depth as you want. Tag it with relevant labels to build a queer community taxonomy of future technologies. Seven of Nine will be the exhibit’s friendly Borg curator.
Code a body for resistance!
Build networks of capacity!
#cyborgsandbox at #AAACASCA for speculative imaginings!
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