Spasm: A Performance/Lecture by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker

Bad-boy and -girl theorists Arthur and Marilouise Kroker take on the body in the age of techno-terrorism. Conceptions of gender and sexuality, and how they fluctuate within a technology- addled culture, form the hub of this provocative performance/lecture about the virtual body. Using video, music, and audiotapes, the Montreal-based Krokers breach the nature of our mortal coils from the outlaw perspectives of Toni Denise ("techno-woman of the '90s"), Madonna Mutant, and Elvis Android, advocates of the new flesh. "Here, future sex is revealed to be a third sex, a floating sex where bodies are made and remade in an endless combinatorial of cynical signs. 'Spasm,' then, as the sound made by the body when it finally recognizes its android other as its own twin star," says this post-deconstruction duo. Arthur Kroker is one of Canada's leading postmodern theorists and the creator, with Marilouise Kroker, of the Panic Encyclopedia. He has published numerous books, including Body Invaders and The Possessed Individual. Marilouise Kroker is editor of The Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory. Special thanks to the Critical Art Ensemble, Sherry Goodman, and Sharon Grace.

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