H&D Summer Talks - part 3 - Club Fantasy

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H&D Summer Talks - part 3 - Club Fantasy
Name H&D Summer Talks - part 3 - Club Fantasy
Location Garage Noord
Date 2022/07/23
Time 19:00-05:00
PeopleOrganisations The Queer Arcana, ¥€$Si PERSE, Carina Erdmann, SasaHara, Noise Diva, DJ Serene, DJ Bebe, dan1dang3r, jujulove, Hackers & Designers
Type HDSA2022
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Join us for the last event of our Summer program with talks, performances and a closing party at Garage Noord!

To close this week H&D is bringing together a guild of fantastic beings to explore collectively the powers of world-building, characters and avatars, fantasy worlds, role play and games to make kin, build communities and imagine futures. The talks and hybrid performances will be followed by a club night with local djs to close the week on the dancefloor!

  • Location: Bar40, Garage Noord, Gedempt Hamerkanaal 40 1021KM, Amsterdam
  • Price: 15euros (gives you access to the full club program that night)
  • Book your tickets here!


Program

Talks and Hybrid Performances

  • 18:30 Doors open
  • 19:00-19:10 Intro by Juliette from H&D
  • 19:15-19:45 Collective Worldling & Remote Embodiment, a talk by Carina Erdmann
  • 19:45-20:45 Avatars & Fantasies, a Lecture-peformance by The Queer Arcana
  • Break
  • 21:00-21:15 a performance by SasaHara x jujulove
  • 21:15-22:15 THE CODEX ECONOMYSTICUS, a peformance by ¥€$Si PERSE
  • 22:15-22:45 Panel Discussion and Q&A with the audience

Club Night

with Noise Diva, dj bebe, jujulove b2b dan1dang3r

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About the contributors

The Queer Arcana is a theatre/game collective that organises theatre shows in which a group of drag performers play Dungeons and Dragons on a live theatre stage. Queer Arcana tries to enhance the visibility of queer gamers and investigates what happens when you overlap different subcultures in art and design. The members are working towards setting up a large digital and analogue gaming community where gaming is used as a tool for strengthening social cohesion, and as a way to explore the self regarding gender identity, humanity, and position in life. The lecture-performance will address the evolution of non-binary drag and how it has influenced the queer community’s discussions of gender identity.


¥€$Si PERSE are multidimensional artists and Quantum DJs based in Barcelona, Spain. IP:62.174.182.94. YESSi PERSE is a hyperstitional interface that allows their wearers to enter into alternative narratives. A Fiction Suit. This parapersona is a continuous-under-construction Avatar, an otherkin/cyborg creature incarnating the idea that concepts such as Body, Identity and Humankind belong to the Fantasy Realm too and, therefore, they use the creation of AFK (Away From Keyboard) virtual personae as a mean of redefining and expanding the inner and external expressions/ notions of the self. Manifesting, formally and performatively, in an RPG (Role Play Game) character -a radical mutant xenofaery- lost in the NeuroDungeon of an Economystical Cybermedieval system.

YESSi use the political strategies of science fiction and urban fantasy to raise questions about identity, economics and future ecologies focusing on how to overcome the idea of human and the anthropocene/capitalocene through posthuman and xenofeminist technologies to mutate the collective mind and queerize the planet.

The current work of YESSi revolves around the mutation of institutional artistic performance with memetic variations that come from popular performative formalizations such as party contexts (using the DJ Set as format), Cosplay/LARP (Live action role-playing game), Online Communities and Virtual Worlds. Founders in 2020 of the artistic collective and music label "NeuroDungeon" together with artists Kaverna and Bartolomé, whose first actions have been the -3D avatar based- virtual raves "NeuroXcape" (Club Cooee) and "Nu:cenosis" (IMVU).

The CODEX ECONOMYSTICUS is an AV / Spoken Word DJ Set - New Ache Mix - where they adopt the roles of "Ethereum" and "CryptoBro", some npcs (non-playable characters) that provide information about the lore of the Economystic System we live in and the legend of "The Cyber Quest for the Holy NFT". The CODEX ECONOMYSTICUS is a NFHT, a Non Fungible Holy Token. A crypto-relic lost in the Blockchain Rhizome. A grimoire of arcane knowledge and ritual technomancy, whose reading provokes deadly speculation. A mysterious digital object that is the source of supreme economystical experience and that allows contact with supernatural entities of immense power, the Cryptocurrencies. The codex’ s code is mined in all of our cerebral cortexes. The (l)ink that flows in their pages is our data. Our datasoul is not ours, it belongs to the codex.


Carina Erdmann is based in Berlin and Brussels. She works as a multimedia artist, researcher, and mentor in Game Design at LUCA School of Arts. Her collaborative and interactive practice engages participants and players in embodied explorations of parallel perspectives, speculative futures, pasts, and the negotiation of different agencies. In the Ph.D. research “DISTANT BODIES AND ACCOMPLICES – Rethinking the interaction between player and avatar through remote LARPing ' she investigates the hybridization of live performance and online gaming. She is co-founder of 0ct0p0s.net, a research platform for performance and pervasive play, producing and presenting non-linear narration, role play, and collective worlding as a tool for critical thought.


SasaHara (1993 - French-Algerian - They/Them) is a creative born in Paris and based in Amsterdam since 2017. They work as a drag transformer and a writer, playing with drag aesthetics in different formats (editorial, club, theater) to create queerophantasmic narratives. They find inspiration in ancient mythologies and transforms them in order to allow queer narratives to be a part of it, through fantasy writing or queer re-write of existing myth. Drawing on the nurtured imagination of their editorial story-telling creations, tapping into the sense of community inherited from their belonging in the nightlife and drag-family, and tinkering these elements together through their managerial skillset, SasaHara creates, supports, and acts within the queer community and for its non-conforming agents.


jujulove (1991, Fr) a.k.a. Juliette Lizotte, is a multidisciplinary artist working with video, design, music, larp and performance. Inspired by feminist science fiction, manga, pop culture and fantasy, her recent research focuses on witches as ecofeminist key figures. Learning from the subversive character of the witch: marginal, powerful and disruptive, with an unsettling relation to nature, jujulove invokes the powers of witches, their spell casting and their engagement with unconventional instinctive and intergenerational knowledges to empower bodies and minds. She is an active member of Hackers & Designers and a DJ!

SasaHara and jujulove will present a first piece together opening a portal to explore their ancestry.


Noise Diva is a noise explorer and sonic chaos curator, DJ and artist based in Amsterdam! Listen to Noise Diva!


DJ bebe is a role model, an artist, a curator! Listen to DJ bebe!


dan1dang3r is a musician and DJ based in Amsterdam. Listen to dan1dang3r!


Access Notes

The event will be held in English. If you have any access needs that are not addressed on this page, especially something that might need to be communicated in advance to everyone, for instance with regards to social distancing or other health-related measures, please let us know via [mailto: info@hackersanddesigners.nl email]. Tell us what you need to participate. We wish to reduce barriers!

The price of the event is €15 but in case you would like to participate but can't pay this amount, write us an [mailto: info@hackersanddesigners.nl email].


Graphic Design by Manon Bachelier

This event is made possible with the generous support of Stimuleringsfonds and AFK.