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Nóra Ó Murchú, Jade Barget & Elise Misao Hunchuck

That’s Hot: #1 GIRLRAGE

#1 GIRLRAGE 

Saturday, June 22, 2024 
4:30pm (please note that the event will take place at 4:30pm instead of 4pm)


Participants: Ana Teixeira Pinto & Alex Quicho 

Situated online and networked amid algorithmic bias and rising alt-right radicals, the girl rages. In the opening event of That's Hot, Ana Teixeira Pinto (Berlin), Alex Quicho (London) explore the GIRL as an anti-fascist icon and influencer. 

That’s Hot is a discourse series curated by Dr. Nóra Ó Murchú and Jade Barget. Through three discussions, with two guests each, the series will be examining collective intelligence through the archetype of GIRL. That’s Hot explores how anti-fascism, mathematics and resistance manifest in the GIRL online. 

The internet is easy. Take a selfie, upload a meme, gain followers, repost, own everything. But being a goddess in the rising tides of networked polarisation, data monetization, and libertarian platform CEOs can be boring. Algorithmic patterns on repeat continuously reinforce a caustic hegemonic social order. Platforms relentlessly extract emerging behaviours matching half-formed desires with new markets, extending influence through rapid expansion and dispersion. That’s all so low vibration.

But a girl can plot. With the metrics and logics of the digital long established, she must act under close watch, and her tactical subterfuge needs the many and not the few. That’s Hot celebrates the possibility of a counter-swarm of political sedition and intellectual hostility. 

So, where’s the counter-swarm, and how can we join? In three discursive events over the summer months, That’s Hot, turns to the figure of the girl, mapping out her potential for simultaneous distraction and counter-operations, seeding deceit under thin, glossy layers of veiled naivety. As a symbolic, consumer, and inhuman category [1], how can the girl operate as a networked, decentralised, and oppositional swarm, manoeuvring through, rather than against, the current digital landscape? 

That’s Hot is curated by Jade Barget & Nóra O' Murchú and features Alex Quicho, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Caroline Sinders, Cristina Lu with more to be announced. 

 [1] Everyone is a Girl Online by Alex Quicho: www.wired.com/story/girls-online-culture



About the curators

Nóra Ó Murchú (she|her) lives and works in Ireland and Berlin (GER). As a curator and researcher, she explores online culture and the impact of technological developments. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses narratives and fictions that result in objects, exhibitions and interventions. She is currently a lecturer in Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Limerick (IR) and Artistic Director of transmediale in Berlin (GER).

Jade Barget (she|her) is a curator based in Paris (FR) and Berlin (GER). She explores atmospheres after nature, a theme at the heart of her recent multi-chapter and ongoing programme The well tempered, with performances at Espace Niemeyer in Paris and soft power in Berlin, as well as exhibitions at Frac Île-de-France and Fondation Fiminco, both in Romainville (FR). Jade was part of the curatorial team of transmediale, Berlin (GER), for the 2021-22, 2023 and 2024 editions and is currently part of the curatorial team of the 15th Gwangju Biennale (KOR).

Jade Barget (she|her) is a curator based in Paris (FR) and Berlin (GER). She investigates atmospheres after nature, a theme central to her recent multi-chapter and ongoing program, The well tempered, with performances at Espace Niemeyer, Paris (FR) and soft power, Berlin (GER), as well as exhibitions at Frac Île-de-France and Fondation Fiminco (both in Romainville). Her curatorial B-side features Fatal & Fallen, a programme conceptualising the figure of the ultra-bad fighting girl as techno-mystic interface and martial device depicted in East Asian grindhouse and arthouse cinema. Fatal & Fallen was presented at Asian Film Archive (SGP), Sinema transtopia (GER), and Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TWN). Jade was part of the curatorial team of transmediale (GER) for the 2021-22, 2023, and 2024 editions, and is currently part of the 15th Gwangju Biennale (KOR) curatorial team. 

 

About the Guests

Alex Quicho (she|her) is from Manila and lives and works in London. She is a theorist, artist, and research director working across writing, video and live performance. Her practice explores narrative and subjectivity in the post-platform age — assessing the unbreakable bonds between Girls & Gore; pleasure & violence; delusion & reality; and human & machine to find out “what is becoming of us.” She has presented works at transmediale (DE), Creamcake and Soft Power in Berlin (DE), Frac île-de-france (FR), Espace Niemeyer in Paris (FR) and Somerset House in London (GB). 

Ana Teixeira Pinto (she|her) is a writer and cultural theorist based in Berlin (DE). She is a professor at the HBK Braunschweig (DE) and a theory tutor at the Dutch Art Institute (NL). Her writings have appeared in publications such as Third Text, Artforum, Afterall, e-flux journal, Manifesta Journal, and Texte zur Kunst. She is the editor of the book series On the Antipolitical, published by Sternberg Press.