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HEXY LAB
2026
HEXY LAB is a collaborative performance that transforms laboratory practices into erotic hauntology, creating a ritual space where feminist bioart, witchcraft, and speculative biotechnology converge.
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Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter and Bruixes_Lab (Giulia Tomasello and Cristina Desi) summon an “other/worldly lab” in which bioscience becomes spell, glassware becomes scrying apparatus, and lab processes are performed as collective care. Through live bioart gestures, layered sound, projected moving images, biomaterials, and Pepper’s Ghost illusion techniques, the performance creates apparitional presences such as flickering figures, floating organs, evoking bodies beyond reproductive duty and futures freed from optimization and purity. The work engages themes of reproductive autonomy, non-normative embodiment, and anti-perfectionist futures. HEXY LAB frames biotech experimentation as a space for uncertainty, relational ethics, and ritual encounter where the audience enters as witnesses to a séance for alternative, pleasure-centric sci-tech futures.
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Curated as part of the Fearless Audacity series by Adam Zaretsky.
Most photos by Wei Chao and Adam Zaretsky.
Arcanum Eroticum
A Manifesto for the Feral Erotic Future
Pleasure
is our most sophisticated technology,
a method of situated transformation
through which the body writes its own future.
The body is a laboratory.
We are not passive vessels.
The egg of the universe nests in our tissues,
blood,
muscle,
Will.
Our bodies invent themselves
Through ancient protocols
And the memory of futures not yet formed:
Pleasure is our infrastructure.
We refuse the sterile future,
The techbro fantasy
and death cult brutality
against our desire:
their future of plastic bag babies
and maternal erotic erasure.
We refuse the obedient body.
We design circuits of pleasure,
Alive in flesh and nerve.
Autonomous,
integrated,
self-realized,
Electric together.
We refuse futures written about us, without us,
Without our vibrant bodies.
Here we open the laboratory of flesh.
We call forth these truths:
Sensation is knowledge,
touch is intelligence,
ecstasy is a form of thinking and making.
We claim the generative force of desire.
We design our own becoming.
This is our research.
our ritual.
our method.
Pleasure is our technology.
Pleasure is our power.
We gather in blood and breath.
Arcanum Eroticum.