🐙 Episode 8 🐙 is with Agnes Questionmark, an Italian artist based in New York, who identifies as trans-species. Artistically she is known for her use of marine-like sculptures and bodies of water. We talk about her transspecies endeavours, ideas for future projects, her personal experience of being a transwoman, her desire to become a mother and much more.

(00:39): Introduction to Agnes Questionmark

(02:20): Being an International Artist; Motherhood; transformation & transitioning; artificial wombs; failed scientific experiments.

(15:02): Octopi; mermaids; working with Anthromorph; being the experiment of your own work; the ‘human’ as outdated; changing the body; moving beyond nature.

(29:14): Neil Harbison; cyborgs and trans-species relationships; a NEED to transform; echolocation helmet; Project Ceti; communicating with Whales.

(37:05): Working fashion; modelling for Gucci and Valentino; dealing with transphobia; ‘we need more women with a D’; TERFS; 

(50:45): Agnes WhatsApp voice note and podcast outro.

Links: 

• Agnes Questionmark on Instagram
• Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna Haraway
• ‘Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene’, which is a chapter inside ‘Staying with the Trouble’ by Donna Haraway
• Drexciya the colonial mermaid story 
• Agnes’s essay ‘Humans are due to Expire Soon’
• Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People by Timothy Morton 
• ‘I Listen to Color’, TED talk with Neil Harbisson 
• Cyborg Arts, Neil Harbisson Website
• Neil Harbisson on Instagram
• Project Ceti Website
• Project Ceti on Instagram
• Agnes Questionmark for Valentino

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