Transcorporeality in Toxic Times unfolds across media, languages, and contexts. The performance critically examines the idea of bodies as self-contained, autonomous entities. Instead, it begins from the porosity of human and non-human bodies, activating artistic practices that foreground exchange, exposure, and transformation.
Through dialogue, the work interweaves archival materials and their temporalities with questions of bio- and necropolitics, seeking to trace the often invisible metabolism of toxicity.
Drawing on feminist materialisms and decolonial ecologies, the performance focuses on lives altered by toxic substances, distorted institutions, and racialized mattering. It interrogates these hazardous conditions together with participants, working from within states of exposure rather than distance. Bodies are affected by toxicity: they absorb and transform it, suffer from it, and yet also turn vulnerability into a site of resistance.
During the performance, an endoscope and a microscope move live through the interior of toxic objects and material matter, opening up microscopic worlds that are otherwise inaccessible to human perception in real time.