Oxy Moron
Using the modern-day cyborg (A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway) as a metaphorical narrative, Oxy Moron evolves around different notions of human / humanoid / superhuman existence in an age of rapid technological advancement and corporate capitalism.
The fading boundaries between nature and technology entail the promise of a utopian post-gender future beyond destructive dualisms and dichotomies such as female / male, real / fake, whole / partial etc. which leaves room for multiplicity, contradiction, otherness and a queer perspective on identity politics. On the other hand, we are easily seduced by the alluring aura of technological possibilities to optimize ourselves to perfection – a scenario that will give rise to new hierarchies and social disparities.
Moving seamlessly from fiction to fact, Oxy Moron is a constant transformation of multiple identities applying narratives of science fiction, online culture and capitalist consumerism to create a new logic of socio-critical satire and live entertainment. Even though conceived as a “parodied future myth” it is an earnest invitation to embrace rather than reject the abject, the debased, the grotesque and the marginalized.
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Kaaitheater