Mary Maggic
Mary Maggic is an artist and researcher whose practice revolves around workshopology as critical sites of care and knowledge production that can move us beyond toxicity narratives and ecological ruins. With this participatory practice, Maggic constantly searches for new performative strategies for embodying our porosity, alienation and stickiness. In 2019, they completed a 10-month Fulbright residency in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, investigating the relationship between Javanese mysticism and the plastic pollution crisis. Later, Maggic received the 2022 Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship for their continued dedication to public workshopology and site-specific world-making practices. Based in Vienna since 2017, they are a current member of the global network Hackteria: Open Source Biological Art and the Asian feminist collective Mai Ling.
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Mary Maggic:
Workshop: Worlding with the Molecular
How do bodies queer at the molecular level? How is this queering inextricably tied to industrial capitalism? Combining body and gender politics with environmental toxicity, we begin to unpack the concept of “open source estrogen”, the underlying premise that hormonal molecules are ubiquitously all around us, available for us to...
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Mary Maggic:
Open Source Estrogen (2015)
A collaborative, interdisciplinary research project, Open Source Estrogen combines biohacking and speculative design to demonstrate the entrenched ways in which estrogen is a biomolecule with institutional biopower. It is a form of biotechnical civil disobedience, seeking to subvert dominant biopolitical agents of hormonal management, knowledge production and anthropogenic toxicity.
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Worlding with the Molecular
03. 10. 2026 / 13:00 – 15:00
@ Cultural Incubator
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presentation of a workshop Worlding with the Molecular
04. 10. 2026 / 11:00
@ Cultural Incubator