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During her March residency at TRAFO, technofeminist performer Marthe Van Dessel developed the exhibition Triggering Electro-Inducing Spasms, which opened with a live performative event by the artist. Together with Isabel Burr Raty, she led a two-day sound workshop for students of the Academy of Art in Szczecin. The students later became involved in the exhibition programme, including the weekly activation of a performative public interface. These sessions invited audiences to embark on a journey through radio, electromagnetic waves, and alternative technofeminist processes.

"Trigering Electro-Inducing Spasms" featured a collection of the hard, soft and wet ware artifacts and devices, as well as the documentation of the series of actions, that were implemented during the six-year trajectory of PAN PAN PAN. This public performative interfaces project, proposes artistic interventions to expose radio waves as a critical natural resource exploited by patriarchal and neoliberal technologies.

How can one’s own body sends bio-electric signals and discharge ? (Isabel Bur Raty). How can electricity be measured of anaerobic bacteria living in wet soil in the bottom of the Oder River and Laguna? (Sunjoolee) How can we restore our relation to electrons and energy by rectifying alternate current? (ON3MCR)

The exhibition, performance and lab sessions are on the intersections of art, technofeminism, digital ethnography and parascience.

ooooo (pronoun: we) is a transuniversal constellation since 1998, that initiates, mediates and facilitates, creates and takes over projects and encourages thinking, reflection and action in relation to relevant techno-social issues. Their ‘open’ network inspires participatory processes, mutual learning and collective emancipation.

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ON3MCR is the radio call sign of Marthe Van Dessel, the host of ooooo. She is a technoactivist, pedagogue and performer which creates interfaces, writes protocols and conceives devices for audio-virtual performative events. By initiating ‘bodies’ in non-hegemonic relations to hard-, soft- & wetware, she explores strategies of (digital) re-affection.

Isabel Burr Raty explores the interstices between the organic and the artificial, in order to re-think the memory of the future and blur the limits between fiction and reality. By looking into ancestral knowledge and official scientific facts, about the meaning and practice of matter, territory and healing.

Sunjoo Lee is an interdisciplinary artist working in crossovers of art, technology, and ecology. Her fascination is in diverging the use of electronics and digital tools beyond human interest. Her works often explore topics such as; tools for more-than-human philosophy, emergence, biomimicry, future forms of symbiosis, and permacomputing.

and Ana Kulak, Alex Libertad, Tosia Pilinow, Radosław Jasikowski, Julia Halas, Weronika Krawczyk