performance by Gaia Leandra
https://biofriction.org/peephole/necrobiopsi-by-gaia-leandra/
the zkm is holding a spectacular exhibition under the title ‘Critical Zones’. The goal is to understand the world and all our globalized and (borrowing the words from Braidotti) posthuman mechanisms.
the key to political and ecological activism is not a separate matter but interlinked altogether. you cannot think feminism without including the very real and life-threatening issues of postmodern colonialism, racism or classism.
following the Braidotti, she defines the posthuman as contradictory by nature: while technology’s progress is accelerating, the ecological downfall is too. As the pandemic is forcing humanity to collaborate, socio-cultural differences are being exploited to further divide us.
also the solutions to pressing issues have to be searched in all directions – technology, art, politics…how can one keep track of all this?
Maybe Gaia Leandras vision of a truly ‘post’human world consists in some form of compost world, ruled by the disintegration rate of biological matter rather by the anthropocentric order, we apply to every species on the planet.