How does social media impact our perception of our embodied selves? How will emerging technologies — artificial intelligence, genetics — shape the human bodies of the future? What do the changes that loom mean for “non-normative” bodies? This publication launch and conversation will take place in Adam Peacock’s exhibition, ‘↗︎ The Validation Junky’. Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at MUNCH Dr Tominga O’Donnell, Tine Semb, co-editor of Billedkunst art journal and founder of queer discursive platform and club concept, Karmaklubb*, and Adam Peacock will join forces to unravel and examine the tangled relationships between social media, emerging technologies and the human body. Moderator is Nicholas John Jones, PRAKSIS Founder and Artistic Director.
The conversation will be followed by an open Q&A: audience questions and comments are warmly invited. After we will go out for a drink, you are very welcome to join.

The Perfection / Speculation Explorer:
The Explorer is an A1 foldout publication documenting four thought-provoking interviews between Adam Peacock and leading protagonists in the fields of new technology, identity, the body and the perception of self: author of The Transhuman Manifesto Natasha Vita-More, Professor in the History and Theory of Architecture at MIT Mark Jarzombek; Presidential Professor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Lev Manovich; and science-fiction artist, filmmaker, inventor and body architect Lucy McRae. The interview questions were developed by Peacock in collaboration with his fellow Perfection / Speculation residents: Marte Aas, Jonathan Armour, Louis Alderson-Bythell, Trinley Dorje, Erika Stöckel, and Bobby Yu Shuk Pui.

Go ↗︎ here for the Facebook event. Find more information about the exhibition at PRAKSIS, ↗︎ here, and access ↗︎ The Explorer here.

Duration: Approximate 19:00–20:30. Location: RAM Galleri, Kongens gate 15, Oslo.

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Starting in 2020, and delayed by the pandemic, the Adam Peacock and PRAKSIS’ ‘Residency 18’ finally became IRL during 2021, culminating in ↗︎ the second Karmaklubb* Queering the Museum in the garden of the Vigeland Museum, September 2021. Proving that a projects can form into ongoing research, deeper understandings, new work, and not to mention: friendship. Read more about the current project and collaborations with Adam Peacock ↗︎ here.

Dear PRAKSIS, Nicholas J. Jones, and Adam Peacock: Thank you for the invitation, and the good company of Tominga O’Donnell during the ‘thought and pleasure’ at RAM galleri, and also warmth to Joakim W. Borda-Pedreira, Director at RAM galleri — not to mentioned (and even more important) this travel of 'Perfection/Speculation' that’s lasted for 4 years and still going. Thank you Adam and Nich. Thank each and one of you for coming. There will be more.