Quimera Rosa

Quimera Rosa

DESCRIPTION

Pushing the boundaries of gender identity and collaborative intermediation with plant and machine allies, the artists behind Quimera Rosa share work from their Trans*Plant project, where they seek to produce non-natural cyborg identities from a transdisciplinary perspective. Particularly interested in the articulation between art, science and technology and their functions in the production of subjectivities, Quimera Rosa focuses on the creation of transdisciplinary projects and performances, the elaboration of electronic devices that work with body practices, and biohacking experiments. They assume Donna Haraway’s notion of cyborg, defining it as: “chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism.”

ARTIST BIO

Quimera Rosa is a lab that researches and experiments on body, technology and identities. Their aim is to develop practices able to produce non-natural cyborg identities from a transdisciplinary perspective. Particularly interested in the articulation between art, science and technology and their functions in the production of subjectivities, their work is currently focused on the creation of transdisciplinary projects and performances, the elaboration of electronic devices that work with body practices, and biohacking experiments. They assume Donna Haraway’s notion of cyborg, defining it as: “chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism.” Quimera Rosa’s work is based on the deconstruction of sex and gender identities as well as in the interaction body/machine/environment.The collective’s performances present hybrid beings, chimeras, where the production of the subjectivity is the result of a prosthetic incorporation. Informed by transfeminist and postidentitary discourses, they make bodies a platform for public intervention, breaking up limits between public and private. Quimera Rosa complements artistic activity with workshops, as well as a curatorial and production work.
 Find more at: http://quimerarosa.net

Exhibition Photography © EFA Project Space/Yann Chashanovski