This issue aims to scrutinize both the epistemological and aesthetic potential of the notion of \u2018microperformativity\u2019. The concept denotes a current trend in theories of performativity and performative artistic practices to destabilize human scales (both spatial and temporal) as the dominant plane of reference and to emphasize biological and technological micro-agencies that relate the invisibility of the microscopic to the incomprehensibility of the macroscopic. Investigations into microperformativity redefine what art, philosophy and the technosciences actually consider a \u2018body\u2019 today, in times when\u00a0performance art\u00a0shifts towards generalized and pervasive\u00a0performativity in art. Microperformative positions enquire how artistic methods can engage critically with technologies that exploit life on a microscopic and molecular level to merge bio- and digital media, including for global capitalization. How can performative art and discourses inform these processes to think biopolitics and necropolitics in relation to the dystopia of economy and the utopia of ecology alike? This issue contains contributions on biotechnological performances, physiological processes and micro-gestures, traditional rituals and techniques of craft, on microperformativity seen through the lens of the natural sciences, as well as in economics in times of algorithmic finance and high frequency trading.<\/p>\n
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Editorial\u2009: On Microperformativity<\/strong> Epistemes of Performativity<\/strong> Microperformativity and Biomediality<\/strong> Living Ashes\u2009: Associated milieus and distributed agencies<\/strong> Labor\u2009: The post-anthropocentric body \u2018at work\u2019<\/strong> Microorganisms on Stage\u2009: Winogradsky columns as performative displays in art and science<\/strong> My Name is Sculpture\u2009: For we are many<\/strong> Non-terrestrial Material Agency<\/strong> Microbial Keywording\u2009: Towards material speech acts<\/strong> One Suppository\u2009: A para-medical insertion [artist\u2019s pages]<\/strong> \u2018Agency is Everywhere\u2019\u2009: An encounter with Hans-J\u00f6rg Rheinberger<\/strong> Culturing cut\u2009: Cyanobacteria against scientific objectivity [artist\u2019s pages]<\/strong> Exploring the Aesthetic Potential of AMB\u2019s MOC and AAM [artists\u2019 pages]<\/strong> Anatomical Minutiae and Cannular Self-experimentation<\/strong> STILLLEBEN with Symbionts<\/strong> Transgenesis as Art, Art as Infection\u2009: The case of Adam Zaretsky<\/strong> Microbiospherians\u2009: Leveraging microbes in biosphere 2<\/strong> Neuronal Acts<\/strong> Contingent Claims\u2009: The performativity of finance, or how the future materializes in technocapitalism<\/strong> (Micro-)Performing Ancient Weaving in the PENELOPE project<\/strong> Audiencing Slowness\u2009: Tiny ontologies and the post-human turn<\/strong> Emersive Microperformativity\u2009: On physiological mediation in Yann Marussich\u2019s \u2018immobile\u2019 performances<\/strong> Genes, Memes and Dots<\/strong> Embodiment of Pakshi Kolam\u2009: Performing the molecular human<\/strong> Art and the Microbiome\u2009: New places for microperformativity in the work of Art Orient\u00e9 Objet<\/strong> Speaking with Viruses<\/strong>
\nJens Hauser, Lucie Strecker<\/p>\n
\nChris Salter<\/p>\n
\nJens Hauser<\/p>\n
\nCarolina Ramirez-Figueroa, Luis Hernan, Pei-Ying Lin<\/p>\n
\nPaul Vanouse<\/p>\n
\nMariana P\u00e9rez Bobadilla, Rodrigo Guzm\u00e1n Serrano<\/p>\n
\nThomas Feuerstein<\/p>\n
\nJuan M. Castro, Akihiro Kubota<\/p>\n
\nKlaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker<\/p>\n
\nK T Zakravsky\/Zak Ray<\/p>\n
\nJens Hauser, Lucie Strecker<\/p>\n
\nHideo Iwasaki<\/p>\n
\nAgnes Meyer-Brandis, Lioudmila Voropai<\/p>\n
\nAna Mar\u00eda G\u00f3mez L\u00f3pez<\/p>\n
\nIrini Athanassakis, David Berry<\/p>\n
\nPolona Tratnik<\/p>\n
\nKarmen Franinovi\u0107, Roman Kirschner<\/p>\n
\nChris Salter<\/p>\n
\nGerald Nestler<\/p>\n
\nGiovanni Fanfani, David Griffiths, Ellen Harlizius-Kl\u00fcck, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Alex McLean<\/p>\n
\nJoanne ‘Bob’ Whalley, Lee Miller<\/p>\n
\nBernard Andrieu, Ana\u00efs Bernard, Giorgio Cipoletta, Yann Marussich, Yann Marussich, Petrucia da Nobrega<\/p>\n
\nNigel Helyer<\/p>\n
\nM R Vishnuprasad<\/p>\n
\nMarion Laval-Jeantet<\/p>\n
\nTagny Duff<\/p>\n\n\n