Editor in Residence | McKenzie Wark – Factory International

Free Your Body

Inspired by the iconic club scenes within The Matrix films directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, the New York-based academic and writer McKenzie Wark has commissioned a range of voices to muse on the question: where do you go to free your body? The responses represent a range of cutting-edge fiction, reflection and essays.

McKenzie Wark | Follow the white rabbit

Inspired by the iconic club scenes within The Matrix films, Factory+ Editor in Residence McKenzie Wark asks where do you go free your body?
Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez | I Saw Her in Paradise

Writer and performance artist Xiomara Cervantes-Gomez on how the club itself might only be a simulation of a world in which our bodies might be free.
Gavilán Rayna Russom | Praise, Pleasure and the Nightlife Net

Writer, artist and curator Gavilán Rayna Russom on the interstitial moments of conversation in and around the dancefloor.
Benedict Nguyễn | Horse Girl, Trans Girl

Dancer and writer Benedict Nguyễn on the pleasures and perils of navigating nightlife as a “horsegirl”.
Zora Jade Khiry | Unspooled

Writer Zora Jade Khiry on the search through the club and the rave for the place to get free as a Black trans woman.
Jessica Dunn Rovinelli | Only Ever an Image of Liberation

Filmmaker and writer Jessica Dunn Rovinelli reflects on the three nightlife scenes in The Matrix films.
S.J Norman | Codex Exstasis

SJ Norman chronicles their life as a dancing body – from Australia to Berlin.
McKenzie Wark | Night Clade

McKenzie Wark reflects on bringing together a clade of trans voices for her time as Factory+ Editor in Residence.