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This week, I attended Mary Maggic's event on April 22, 2022, topic is "We’re All Living in the Estroworld". 

In Mary's talk, she used the term "biohacking" very often, which is something that I don't really know about before. And thankfully I got the chance to explore them with Mary Maggic today. So biohacking, according to Mary's explanation, is a form of knowledge production, but out of institutional knowledge. With that being said, biohacking is a form of knowledge in which people create new biology knowledge on their own, in a non-traditional way, not from textbooks or schools. 


Mary Magic's Molecular Queering Agency at EcoFutures festival | CLOT Magazine

Moreover, Mary mainly focuses on sex hormones in her work, and most of her art works' purpose is to visualize those hormones to people since sex hormones are invisible to us, but they are all around our daily life. And she wants to minimize and neutralize people’s anxiety, fear and panic about existing in this world through her work, such as in workshop and participatory performances.Therefore, I think her works are great examples of art and science, which is our lecture topic in week 1's lecture. The combination of creativity in art and the study of sex hormones introduces this new kind of art to the world, it is something that I never got a chance to discover before. I learned a lot from today’s event, and definitely keep discovering in the future. 


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