Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Master of Photography sponsored by Kayell Australia.
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Cyborg selfies and dystopic playdates:
A sci-fi story for neuroqueer imaginings.
This series explores neuroqueer (autistic/queer) (dis)embodiment and alienation. Through a queer, posthuman and xenofeminist framework, the work brings into focus the inherently queer interbodily experiences of the neuroqueer bodymind. The work offers a narrative imagining for the neuroqueer networked self; a self joyfully enmeshed with the technological and the non-human.
In this story, the cybernetic organism has been employed as a theoretical site for the othered body, and a narrative thread woven throughout the works. The textural layers, virtual image loops, and non-human networks that emerged through this creative research are expressed through self portrait photography, textile sculptures, virtual pointcloud iterations of the sculptures, and augmented reality encounters.
The story that underpins this series sets out that the textile sculptures are dormant biomorphic beings. They become cyborg bodily additions, activated when they connect with their human counterpart. The textile biomorphic forms are self and kin; technological, botanical and material. They are materialisations of a disembodied self, an illustration of all the parts that exist within and without a neuroqueer flesh casing. Each form becomes dematerialised in the analogue and rematerialised in the digital; a virtual unfolding and refolding of self and kin.
Cyborg selfies & dystopic playdates is a story of our bodies in-between;
it is a rewriting of how we see and how we are seen.
This is an offering for modes of being held and learning to hold;
you, them, me and us …
Mounted giclee photographic print on Bauhaus true rag etching.
16:9. 00:43. Single channel video loop.
3D pointcloud, virtual iteration of textile sculpture.
Sketchfab encounter.
Mounted giclee photographic print on Bauhaus true rag etching.
16:9. 00:19. Single channel video loop.
3D pointcloud, virtual iteration of textile sculpture.
Sketchfab encounter.
600 x 750mm. Mounted giclee photographic print on Bauhaus true rag etching.
(Cyborg face shield) AR encounter.
2022. Dimensions variable. Instagram filter,
Spark AR 3D virtual iteration of cyborg face shield.
3D pointcloud, virtual iteration of textile sculpture.
Sketchfab encounter.
from the series Earthly delights and the spaces in between.
Angelique Joy
They/Them – Visual Artist, Neuroqueer, Expanded Photography
Angelique Joy is a Neuroqueer, visual artist working with photography and the expanded nature of the digital image. Angelique’s practice is informed by their Neuroqueer lived experience and through the intersecting frameworks of posthumanism, queer and xenofeminism.
Their practice has emerged out of a concern with identity, otherness and space. They are interested in the cultural and material spaces we all unfold within. Increasingly their practice is interrogating the digital spaces we populate and how the technologically mediated bodymind is contributing to new worlds.
They are particularly interested in exploring how each being, both human and non, unfolds, is constructed and performed within the spaces we inhabit, the spaces we claim, and the spaces we are kept from.
Angelique has completed a Masters of Photography at RMIT. Prior to commencing their masters, they completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts: Photography and a Bachelor of Contemporary Art and Design: Honours at UNI SA.
Their works have been a finalist of the SA Museum – Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize (2022), MGA – Bowness Photography Prize (2021), Fishers Ghost Art Awards (2016), Head On Photography Festival (2015), FELTspace ARI Graduate Award, Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition and SALA Festival: Unitedcare Moving Image Award.
Angelique is currently living, working and creating on Kaurna Land (Adelaide Plains), and learning, working and creating in connection with Naarm (Melbourne).
www.angeliquejoy.com
www.instagram.com/angeliquejoy.creative