Mary Maggic

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Mary Maggic is a nonbinary artist, researcher and mother working within the fuzzy intersections of body and gender politics and capitalist ecological alienations. Their inter- disciplinary projects span amateur science, participatory performance, installation, documentary, and speculative fiction. Since 2015, Maggic frequently uses biohacking as a xeno-feminist methodology and collective practice of care that serves to demystify invisible lines of molecular biopower. Maggic is a current member of the online net- work Hackteria: Open Source Biological Art, the labora- tory theater collective Aliens in Green, the Asian feminist collective Mai Ling, as well as a contributor to the radical syllabus project Pirate Care and to the CyberFeminism Index collections.Event We Are Living in Estroworld Urine / hormone extraction workshop and artist talkMonday 19th September 14:30-16:00How do bodies queer at the molecular level? How is this queering inextricably tied to industrial capitalism? Combining body and gender politics and environmental toxicity, we begin to unpack the concept of “open source estrogen,” the underlying premise that hormonal mole- cules are ubiquitously all around us - available for us to hack, mutate, and become-with. Through this process of unboxing their molecular mystique, we see that even in our sublime sea of toxic molecules, it is still a sea of co-mattering. With our extractive tools we can see only the tiniest picture in the macro cosmos of space and time. But perhaps this is all we need to transmute the traumas of our old world into the new.