Maya B. Kronic: Lecture + Guerrilla Exhibition: In Love with Senseless Intensification

As part of the opening of the “Gravity of the Useless” exhibition at the Display Gallery, philosopher and theorist of cuteness Maya B. Kronic will give a performance lecture on technology and excess entitled IN LOVE WITH SENSELESS INTENSIFICATION: THE JOY OF EXCESS

In addition, Maya will also present 3 video pieces (on which she has collaborated with Jake Chapman and Paul Chaney + a video by Daniel Felstead), which will remain on view in the Display Gallery until 31 August 2025. Paul Chaney, Maya B. Kronic: Proof of Expenditure (4 Saps) (photogrammetric trophy NFTs, videoloo,p 0:54) @paul.laupxx

Jake Chapman, Maya B. Kronic: misfortunes (video, 10:55) @jakechapwoman

Daniel Felstead: Welcome to Jankspace, babes (video, duration will be specified) @felstead.daniel

BIO Maya B. Kronic (she/her) 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. Her research interests include: accelerationism, the ethics of intensity, subjectivity and the earth, the cute and the supernormal, deleuze and mathematics, and transphoria.