UFO
UFO is not a university in a traditional sense—or in any sense. It is a model, continuously revising what a university is or could be. Its goal is to act as a transformative vehicle, capable of moving through impossible spaces and concepts. It operates with complexity, computation, dynamics, ontology, and intelligence, which form the bedrock of the transformative formations that emerge through its behavior and characteristics.
We are living in a time when existing structures and organizations are being stripped down. Their true face is exposed: a lack of care for humanity at their core, built entirely on power and struggle. Our task begins with recognizing this, and understanding ourselves as a force capable of transforming struggle into a different kind of power.
We have, historically, given our power away to a small few. But that no longer makes sense—these figures no longer carry any real organizational value. What is emerging is the possibility for any character to rise into such positions. Not the same positions, but new configurations—new forms. This opens up a global scale of resistance, because the mediatory connections that once held power in place are dissolving through the mutation of existing structures. Not their total destruction, but a selective removal and addition—a mutation that turns them into something far more horrible.
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Posthuman Studies Lab
Hallidonto
Hallidonto is currently developing an immersive opera based on the work and the writings around themes of his own empirical connections to posthuman and transhumanist discourse.
Having contracted a brain injury which left me with deafness and severe tinnitus.
The opera treads the path from speculative visions to the lived-in experience of disability with a focus on the senses.
Sanctum Cyborgia
Posthumanism deconstructs sociological narratives such as the anthropocene, and the impact Humans have inflicted onto the earth and ultimately ourselves. From this notion I observed my own background coming from a working-class background in Scotland, part of the UK. UK society is still permeated by the Class system and in conjunction with race added into the mix which as you could imagine has its own complexities of existence with the UK's society.
From this premise, I saw the opera as a platform that was in need of change, new aesthetics, new narratives that reflect the world we are inhabiting. As an art form opera is pretty much inaccessible to 'working class' society' in all its guises of creed, colour and disability. I saw this as a call to arms, a punk statement in that of the posthumanist's deconstruction of the 'humanism (ist)' narratives of society.