Ofri Cnaani with Morgane Billuart, Carmen Hines and Agnė Jokšė
Listen to it like you haven’t been born yet, tell it as if you are still in the surrogate womb
8. 8. 24, 7 p.m.
How deeply are we attuned to the technological systems in which we place ourselves, and which we place in ourselves? The programme will focus on the role of platform capitalism in shaping and orienting user bodies, gender and sexuality. Combining performance, participatory experience and live podcast, the evening will bring together artists Agnė Jokšė and Ofri Cnaani, and researchers-creators Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart. Agnė Jokšė works with words. They are currently creating a non-binary Lithuanian language, and use performance to explore queerness and language. Jokšė will present Lezbynai (2020), an erotic story about lesbian love in the background of the Lazdynai district where the artist grew up. Artist Ofri Cnaani will lead the audience in Stories from the Surrogate Womb, an exploration of the Generali collection, that focuses on the idea of somatic listening. The performance is a personal wandering through call-and-response prompts, and allows participants to re-experience familiar or unfamiliar sites in the collection through the notion of choreographic listening.
Carmen Lael Hines and Morgane Billuart's recent research and writings focus on the fast-growing industry of Femtech, a term which describes the software, products and digital services that focus on female health. In their performative lecture and live podcast recording, Girlemployee, Billuart and Hines use podcasts as a performative medium for presenting research and discussing the history of critiquing platforms via platforms. Together with the audience, they ask when the podcast becomes a space for articulating alternative knowledge-making structures. How do podcasts appeal to the temporalities of post-capitalist time-keeping – voices that feed you information as you move from one location to the other?
key data
- Venue
- Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Rupertinum
- Date
- 8. 8. 24, 7 p.m.
Ofri Cnaani
Ofri Cnaani is an artist and researcher who works across media and performance. Cnaani writes about data and coloniality, digital contested heritage, and performance as a model for creating critical technology. She is a visiting professor at the Institute of Visual Culture, TU Wien, Austria, and a research fellow at the International Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam. In 2022, she completed her doctoral studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Until recently, Cnaani was an associate lecturer at the Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths, University of London. Cnaani’s work has appeared at Tate Britain, UK; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Inhotim Institute, Brazil; Israel Museum; Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki; Kiasma Museum, Helsinki; PS1/MoMA, NYC; BMW Guggenheim Lab, NYC; The Fisher Museum of Art, L.A.; Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Italy; Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel; Moscow Biennial; The Kitchen, NYC; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Arnolfini Foundation Museum, Bristol; Tel Aviv Museum; Prague Triennial, among others. Before moving to London, Cnaani was based in New York City, where she was a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts’ Visual and Critical Studies program. At SVA, Cnaani founded the program “City as Site: Performance + Social Interventions.” Cnaani is the co-organizer of Choreographic Devices, an annual three-day chorographic symposium at ICA, London, and has recently completed a project at the International Space Station (ISS).
Exhibitions
Most important exhibitions and performances:
2023 Museum of Contemporary Arts (MAC), Santiago. SUBTE, Montevideo. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv. Rampa, Porto, PT. 2022 Triskel Art Center, Ireland. 2021 Austrian Pavilion, 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, IT. Petach Tikva Museum of Art. 2019 Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki. Sir. John Soane Museum, London. 2018 Goethe Institute’s Performing Architecture program at La Biennale die Venezia, Venice. Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FL (US). 2017 Tate Britain, London. Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN (US). The Nathan Cummings Foundation. 2016 Kisama Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki. 2015 Inhotim Institute, Brumadinho, Brazil. Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Dallas Arts District, Dallas, TX (US). 2013Seven Words, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (US). 2012 Princeton University and Rutgers University. Fisher Museum of Art at USC, Los Angeles, CA (US). 2010 PS1/MoMA, NY. Moscow Biennial. 2009 Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Milan, IT.
