„Cripto Sirenas“ is upon view until 26th January 2025.
For their newest work cycle 'Cripto Sirenas' Berlin based artist Anna Ehrenstein and Austrian artist Sunny Pfalzer teamed up with the San Salvador based artists Lucy Tomasino and Alexa Evangelista, as well as the web3 researcher Josh Davila. Cripto Sirenas is collaborative sci-fi fable and multi-media worldbuilding venture centered around a collaborative 360° video work and extending through installation, sculptures and mixed-
media photographic works. The cycle
speculates on tech-solutionism, totalitarian algorithms, and their impact on our bodies through an eco- or hydro-feminist lens, rethinking crypto-colonialist extractivism through the interconnectedness of bodies of water.
Developed collaboratively in El Salvador, the video work follows a narrative created in somatic writing sessions between the artists and in conversation with crypto researcher Joshua Davila (author of Blockchain Radicals).
360° footage of the artists performing in public urban spaces and remote natural locations, choreographed by Pfalzer, is juxtaposed with computer-generated imagery, fictioning a future ecology between the digital and physical,
artifice and what is conceptualized as “nature” by tech-solutionists. Ecofeminist strategies and drag as a political extension of the self have been parts of Alexa Evangelista and Lucy Tomasino’s artistic methodologies and become central, fluid, and moist dreamscapes within the fable.