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Contested Bodies: Navigating Control, Resistance, and Technological Impacts

Symposium

The one-day symposium expands on the themes explored in The New Subject. Mutating Rights and Conditions of Living Bodies, the final exhibition in a series investigating the evolving challenges of human and non-human bodies within the context of global biopolitics and technological advances.

Through a series of dynamic presentations and discussions, the symposium will investigate the legal, somatic, and cognitive dimensions of bodily rights, spotlighting tensions between control, resistance, and technological influence.

Curators, artists, and researchers, including Anna Bitkina and Maria Veits (Curators, TOK), Micha Frazer-Carroll (Writer and researcher, London), Ulrika Flink (Curator, Stockholm), Clara Sika Helbo (Artist and designer, Copenhagen), Caitlin Berrigan (Artist, filmmaker and writer, Berlin and Vienna), Anan Fries (Artist and performer, Berlin), and Avi Feldman (Curator and lawyer, Director of Wannsee Contemporary, Berlin), will share their insights on the intersections of bodily autonomy, legal frameworks, and technological innovation.

Moderated by the curators Anna Bitkina and Maria Veits.

Meeting point: Maschinenhaus M0

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