Autobiography of an octopus artist

Agnes Questionmark employs long-lasting performance as means of identity exploration and reconfiguration of an unprecedented hybrid creature. Using some of these actions as examples, this essay explores how the artist has engaged with organic posthumanism, environmental issues, feminist and queer theories to propose her own vision of nature. Her interest in animals, biology or the relationship with water are, in fact, part of a research that questions the possible evolution of human beings, following the massive climatic changes in the Anthropocene. Moreover, the gender transition that she experiences contributes to thinning the fluid boundary between art, life and narrative practices.