2024-25 -TRANSMEDIALE

She’s Evil

She’s Evil, Most Definitively Subliminal sees Alex Quicho and Noura Tafeche enter the theatre of psychological operations online – because physical wounds heal – and lay out the girl artillery, from IDF e-girls to DIY subliminals. At this intersection of asymmetrical warfare and individualistic self-development, the battle is fought via seduction, influence, disruption, and confusion.

Commissioned for Transmediale 2024: You’re Doing Amazing Sweetie. Reviewed by Spike Magazine. Performed again for A*LIVE: Radical Cuteness at Museu de l’art Prohibit, Barcelona and Are You A Software Update? at Aksioma, Ljubljana.


Collaborative performance with Noura Tafeche
Two-channel projection with found subliminal audio, 30 mins
Photography by Laura Fiorio for transmediale /
domen pal for aksioma
With thanks to Jade Barget, Nóra Ó Murchú and Kasia Wlaszczyk

 

2024-25 - VARIOUS

Gore Layer

An assessment of how ultrasmooth mechanics and beautiful fighting girls are already deployed in the theatre of operations, also known as the gore layer — proposing the Final Girl as the investigating consciousness of ultratrauma.

First developed as an essay for Spike and expanded at GIRLRAGE for Tropez and GIRLFRONT⊿ for In Terms of Media…, Weibel Institute. Finalised as Styles of 5G War☰ for Proof of Personhood, Singapore Art Museum.


ESSAY & LECTURE, 30 MINS
’that’s hot’ series visuals by Bassam Al-Sabah
photography by ink agop
with thanks to jade barget, Nóra Ó Murchú
and the weibel institute