Agnes Questionmark: Sea creatures, motherhood, transgenesis, cyborgs

🐙 Episode 8 🐙 is with Agnes Questionmark, an Italian artist based in New York, who identifies as trans-species. Artistically she is known for her use of marine-like sculptures and bodies of water. In her personal life she is also on a mission to become a hybrid being, speaking with scientists about changing her DNA. We talk about her transspecies endeavours, and ideas for future projects. We also talk about her personal experience of being a transwoman, her desire to become a mother, her work with cyborg Neil Harbisson, and modelling for Gucci and Valentino.
00:00: Podcast Introduction
00:39: Introduction to Agnes Questionmark
02:20: Being an International Artist; Motherhood; transformation and transitioning; transgenesis; artificial wombs; gestation; failed scientific experiments.
15:02: Octopi; mermaids; monsters; working with Anthromorph; being the experiment of your own work; the ‘human’ as a construct; blood and guts; changing the body; moving beyond nature.
29:14: Neil Harbison; cyborgs and trans-species relationships (with Whales); a NEED to transform; committing to the transformation; echolocation helmet; Project Ceti; communicating with Whales.
37:05: Working fashion; modelling for Gucci and Valentino; dealing with transphobia; ‘we need more women with a D’; TERFS;
50:45: Agnes WhatsApp voice note and podcast outro.
Links:
• Agnes Questionmark on Instagram: / agnesquestionmark
• Agnes Questionmark’s Website: www.agnesquest...
• Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna Haraway: www.dukeupress...
• ‘Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene’, which is a chapter inside ‘Staying with the Trouble’ by Donna Haraway: www.e-flux.com...
• Drexciya the colonial mermaid story: www.theguardia...
• Agnes’s essay ‘Humans are due to Expire Soon’: www.neroeditio...
• Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People by Timothy Morton: www.amazon.co....
• ‘I Listen to Color’, TED talk with Neil Harbisson: • Neil Harbisson: I list...
• Cyborg Arts, Neil Harbisson’s Website: www.cyborgarts...
• Neil Harbisson on Instagram: / neilharbisson
• The Cyborg Foundation: www.cyborgfoun...
• Project Ceti Website: www.projectcet...
• Project Ceti on Instagram: / projectceti
• Agnes Questionmark for Valentino: www.reeditionm...
Bodies in the Post Social Media:
All links found here: linktr.ee/bodi...
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