Xenomorphosis. Laboratory of poetics and alien politics with Michel Nieva

Through social media, digital and AI-generated images, the discussion and representation of the ‘alien’ is at the centre of the cultural and political contestation of our time. This lab will explore how this representation of the foreign is connected to the alien in the history of science fiction, and what potency nests in the genre for a xenophilic and anti-fascist politics.

Michel Nieva (Buenos Aires, 1988) studied Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and is currently a doctoral researcher and lecturer at New York University. He has published the poetry collection Papelera de reciclaje (2011), the novels ¿Sueñan los gauchoides con ñandúes eléctricos? (2013), Ascenso y apogeo del Imperio Argentino (2018), La infancia del mundo (2023) and the books of essays Tecnología y barbarie (2020) and Ciencia ficción capitalista (2024). In 2021 he was chosen by Granta magazine as one of the best young storytellers in Spanish and in 2022 he won the O. Henry Prize. He also wrote the script for the 8-bit video game Elige tu propio gauchoide. His work has been translated into Bulgarian, French, English, Italian and Portuguese.

Organised by: Medialab Matadero and XenoVisual Studies with the collaboration of Caja Negra.

Free admission until full capacity is reached.