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Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho, Notes on “The Angry Christ” (3), 2021

Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho, Notes on “The Angry Christ” (3), 2021
In collaboration with Fiona Gordon and Roibí O Rua
Installation image, Sailor’s Home, June 2021
Courtesy Fiona Gordon and Roibí O Rua

This ‘Mxnifesto’ was birthed by two women; one cis, one trans; both disturbed by living in a society that strangles with the fetishization of categorization. Opening discourse regarding heteronormativity, femininity, and queerness during the process of creating Notes on “The Angry Christ” (3) presented lines of inquiry that could not be ignored. We inquire by looking forward, what would our identities be, prior to the inscription of heteronormativity? ‘Mxnifesto’ acts as the seed and decree of our future practice. Through this we put our identities on the line, fusing them with the cyberspace to rewrite our culture so that our bodies exist outside of societies constraints.

Reading list:

Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho, The Angry Christ.

Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho, “Surviving Tiempo Muerto: On Bungkalan and Peasant Resistance in the Philippines,” Walker Reader, April 22, 2020.
https://walkerart.org/magazine/amy-lien-enzo-camacho-bungkalan-peasant-resistance-phillipines-artist-op-ed

Dion Farquhar, “(M)other discourses,” in The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader, eds. Gill Kirkup, Linda Janes, Kath Woodward and Fiona Hovenden (London, New York: Routledge in association with the Open University 2000), 209-220.

Donna J. Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century,” in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991), 149-181.
https://bit.ly/3ky2er4

Donna J. Haraway, “The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order” in The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader, eds. Gill Kirkup, Linda Janes, Kath Woodward and Fiona Hovenden (London, New York: Routledge in association with the Open University 2000), 221-246.

EL Putnam, “Digital Art in Ireland” panel discussion organized by Sample-Studios in partnership with University College Cork Department of Digital Humanities, April 14, 2021.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oqsFnuSEwQ

Jean Chandler, “Abwoon D’Bwashmaya,” October 21, 2019.
https://www.rollingridge.org/post/abwoon-dbwashmaya-12838927

Jill Soloway, “The Female Gaze,” TIFF Talks, Master Class, 2016.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnBvppooD9I

Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (New York: Verso, 2020).
https://www.legacyrussell.com/GLITCHFEMINISM

Meshell Ndegeocello, God Shiva, 1996.

Nina Power, One Dimensional Woman (Winchester UK, Washington USA: Zero Books, 2009).

Roibí O’Rua, Queering the Divine, November 2019.

Roibí O Rua, Adam Dressed as Eve, April 2019.

Sinéad O’ Connor, Famine, 1994.

The Polyester Podcast, “Is Performativity a Bad Thing?,” April 5, 2021.
https://play.acast.com/s/the-polyester-podcast/thesleepoverclub-isperformativityabadthing-

Theodor W. Adorno, “Something’s Missing: A discussion between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on the contradictions of utopian longing” in The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected essays of Ernst Bloch, eds. Jack Zipes and Frank Mechlenburg, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988), 1-17.
https://fswg.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/bloch-and-adorno-somethings-missing-and-blochs-essay-art-and-utopia-the-creation-of-the-ornament.pdf

Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds, ed. Jenna Ng (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013).

Unknown, An Spailpín Fánach.
https://www.irishpage.com/songs/spailpin.html

VNS Matrix, “A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century,” 1991.
https://vnsmatrix.net/projects/the-cyberfeminist-manifesto-for-the-21st-century

VNS Matrix, “Bitch Mutant Manifesto,” 1996.
https://vnsmatrix.net/projects/bitch-mutant-manifesto

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