Cute Acc Night with Amy Ireland & Maya B. Kronic aka DJK Huysmans

Punctum x Twist present:Punctum – Krásova 27 – 19:00 – 22:00Cute Accelerationism audiovisual presentationWhy is cuteness so powerful, and what is it doing to us? In an A/V performance based around the book Cute Accelerationism (Urbanomic, 2024), authors Amy Ireland & Maya B. Kronic will explore the symptomatology, aetiology, epidemiology, history, biology, etymology, topology, and even embryology of Cute, burrowing down into its natural, cultural, sensory, sexual, subjective, erotic, and semiotic dimensions in order to sound out the latent spaces of this Thing that has an irresistible hold on contemporary culture. Nothing uncute makes it out of the near future!Followed by Q&A, moderated by BCAA systemSupport by BCAA system, TBA╱|、(˚ˎ 。7 |、˜〵 じしˍ,)ノTwist – Vlkova 26 – 22:00 – 1:00DJK Huysmans (AKA Maya B. Kronic) – Cute DJ setSupport by BCAA system DJ∧ ,,, ∧( ̳• · • ̳)/ づ♡In collaboration with Display association for research and collective practice where Maya B. Kronic will give a talk IN LOVE WITH SENSELESS INTENSIFICATION: THE JOY OF EXCESS on 25/06/2025 as part of exhibition GRAVITY OF THE USELESS.へ ♡ ╱|、૮ – ՛ ) (` – 7/ ⁻ ៸| |、⁻〵乀 (ˍ, ل ل じしˍ,)ノAmy Ireland is an Australian writer and theorist whose work focuses on gender and technology, and questions of human and machine agency in modernity. She is a member of the technomaterialist, transfeminist collective Laboria Cuboniks, whose Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation (2018) has been translated into 18 languages. With Maya B. Kronic she is the author of Cute Accelerationism (2024). Amy works as an editor for the UK Publisher, Urbanomic.* * *Maya B. Kronic (they/them) is a recrypted iteration of a philosopher, and is Head of Research and Development at the publisher Urbanomic, which aims to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production. The Agent, patient, and product of ongoing research project on gender hyperstition and cute accelerationism.Maya has written and spoken on art and philosophy and has also worked with a number of artists developing cross-disciplinary projects, as well as translating innumerable essays and various book-length works of French philosophy.Their research interests include: accelerationism, the ethics of intensity, subjectivity and the earth, the cute and the supernormal, deleuze and mathematics, and transphoria.– – –Event is part of Punctum Theory Club series.Entry PUNCTUM + TWIST 150 – 300 czkEntry TWIST only 100 czk