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Vol.47 Tokyo☟
What are you for a Creature
A Group Exhibition curated by Finn Ryan and Chloe Paré @NAM NAM SPACE Tokyo
14-15 October 2023
Drawing by Sayaka Maruyama





About the Exhibition

what are you for a creature
2023.10.14-15
(sat+sun)
12:00 - 19:00

'What Are You For A Creature’ is a pop-up event where visitors can assemble their own wearable art pieces using modular shapes, created in collaboration with six practitioners.

In "what are you for a creature" a transhumanist approach re-evaluates the malleability of the human with organic plasmaticness. Inspired by Sergei Eisenstein's writings on plasmatic animalisation, Donna Haraway's feminist cyborgs, and Robert McRuer's anticapitalist queer crip theory, we provide a setting where visitors are encouraged to experiment with the fluidity of form using the infinitely re-shapeable modular objects provided.
The desire to transcend our limited form is one inherent in our physical make-up; that force which pushes life-forms to evolve since the first microbes on Earth is now cognised in the human mind's dissatisfaction with its own body. In pursuit of freedom from ossification we push for the cyborg, merging our humanity with the infinite potential of future technology. Our organic constitution is one just as capable of transcendence; in returning to the amoebic proto-plasm of our origin we are liberated from once-and-forever allotted form, and gain the opportunity to explore infinite possibilities of becoming.
Metamorphose yourselves, create unique bodies suited for each individual, and gain autonomy over your own physical presentation and existence.

Artists:
Dan Dagondon @dumadagondon
Nat Decker @cripfantasy
Our Rags Magazine @ourragsmagazine
Sayaka Maruyama @sayaka_maruyama_
Chloe Paré #chloepare
SKWAT @skwat.site
Daphne Mohaier va Pesaran @daphne mvp
br>br> The project is realised in collaboration with SKWAT, a multidisciplinary collective catalysing new uses of existing spaces, that has provided repurposed fabrics and material for the realisation.
Video ©️Maressa Jorge
Drawings of Sayaka Maruyama
Photography ©️Sareena Sattapon
Drawings of Sayaka Maruyama
Production
Production
Venue: NAMNAM スペース

神奈川県登戸新町244-1

"What are you for a creature”(生き物としてのあなた)ではトランスヒューマニストのアプローチから有機的であり、かつ原形質である人間の可塑性を再評価します。セルゲイ・エイゼンシュテインの原形質性に関する論考、ダナ・ハラウェイのフェミニスト・サイボーグ、ロバート・マクルーアの反資本主義的クイア・クリップ理論に触発され、無限に形状を変えるモジュールを通じて来場者に形の流動性を実験する環境を提供します。

限られている体の形状を超越したい欲望は、私たちの身体構造の内在的な存在です。地球上で最初の微生物が誕生して以来存在する、生命体を進化へと突き動かす原動力は今や、自らの身体に対する不満として認識されています。骨化からの解放を追求し、サイボーグを推進することによって、人間性と未来のテクノロジーの無限の可能性を融合させます。私たちの有機的な身体形態も同等な超越を実現させます。起源であるアメーバ原形質に戻ることによって、私たちは一度決められた「形状」から解放され、進展する無限の可能性を手に入れます。
自己変容(メタモルフォーゼ)を経て、独自の体を構築し、自己の身体的表現・存在に向けて自律を獲得するのです。
One of the curators : Finn RyanVideo ©️Maressa Jorge
Photography ©️Sareena Sattapon
shot @konomadic
Drawings of Sayaka Maruyama
Drawings of Sayaka Maruyama
Drawings of Sayaka Maruyama
NAM NAM SPACE : Photography ©️Sareena Sattapon
Opening 13th Oct
Prodution
Prodution