Artist Talk with Doireann O’Malley, Nika Pecarina, Pol Merchan and Elena Schmidt
Presentation and talk with the artist Doireann O’Malley and the three protagonists Nika Pecarina, Pol Merchan and Elena Schmidt of the film Prototypes, which will be shown in the exhibition "Wild – Transgender and the Communities of Desire".
The film focuses on female to male gender transition and its intra-relational proximity to history, politics, bodies, objects, drives, and the virtual & actual symbolic, real and imaginary orders— both with and without the “boundaries” of the human.
Wild – Transgender and the Communities of Desire is an international group exhibition that draws together recent artworks dealing with questions and challenges of transgender life and communities, don’t necessarily present an inquiry into the complexities of transgenderism, but rather in this particular constellation of artworks transgenderism appears as a perspective framing and narrating current human (societal) conditions.
They will discuss the collaborative methodologies involved in the making of the film, from the research process, participating in Jungian Dream Analysis workshops, recording their dreams and reflecting on aspects of the unconscious, identity, the body, internal and external experience to examine the complexities of trans sexuality and consciousness. The limitations of this form informed an exploration of Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theoretical positions.
The collaborative process informed from techniques used by Deleuze and Guattari in group psycho-analytic formats, extended into all aspects of the film from research, reading sessions, to writing monologues which were written in workshops exploring trans subjectivity with more participants who will be part of the second film in the series.
The work is a result of this exploratory methodology which generated new forms of knowledge around the topics, drawing on a wide range of feminist perspectives from queer theory, psycho-analysis, quantum physics, genetics, cybernetics and systems biology.