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Goddess or cyborg?

8. Mai 2015
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May 8 – The Coven Berlin collective is organizing an interdisciplinary festival dedicated to cyberfeminism and technology, comprising screenings, workshops, performances and talks at Kleiner Salon in Kreuzberg. ‘I’d Rather be a Goddess than a Cyborg’ starts today and continues through May 22 with a closing party at Loophole. The program features academics and artists from all over the world, bringing together topics like contraception, electronic music production and porn.

The festival’s title is an inversion of a quote from Donna Haraway’s famous essay, A Cyborg Manifesto. “This year is the Manifesto's thirtieth anniversary, and our aim was not only to pay homage to it through our festival, but also to actively engage with it. Things have changed a lot since then, and the utopic genderless place that the Internet meant for the cyberfeminist movement turned out to be something completely different. Sexism, violence and capitalism are sadly a too prominent part of it nowadays,” explains Coven co-founder Lo Pecado. “But new media also opened unimagined ways for gender and social activism. We are aiming to provoke and to create a critical discourse among the visitors – aren't we cyborgs already?” Aspiring tech-goddesses, take note.

Joey Hansom

"I’d Rather be a Goddess than a Cyborg", May 8-21, Kleiner Salon

Closing party: May 22 at Loophole www.covenberlin.com

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