A performance about the role of AI in the end of Anthropocene.
Xenocene: A Manifesto in Motion
Claudix Vanesix as part of Beta Festival
20 & 21 November 2026
The prefix “xeno”, meaning “other” or “foreign”, signals a shift from anthropocentric reality towards a multiplicity of intelligences and forms of agency. Claudix Vanesix uses their own body, as well as texts, images and sounds from non-human species as input for the AI image generator Stable Diffusion.
Vanesix combines recognition of these life forms with techno-critical activism. In this way, “Xenocene: A Manifesto in Motion“ exposes the supremacist fetishes embedded in projects such as bioengineering, cryptoeconomies, space colonization, and the race toward Artificial General Intelligence.
The performance questions human dominance over the interpretation of the world by contrasting human “reality” with the “xenoreality” produced by an AI system. Is the world we perceive the only one that exists? Or merely one perspective among many, entangled in a post-human ontology where non-human intelligences also claim agency?
More about the artist, Claudix Vanesix
Claudix Vanesix (they/them) is a performance and XR artist from Peru based in France. They are the artistic director of FIVIA – Festival International de Vidéo et Intelligence Artificielle in France, and Co-Founder of AMiXR, peruvian collective dedicated to the research of feminist and decolonial AI and XR in film and performance art.
Their work is critical of sexism and racism in the digital social life and reflects about its impact on the physical world. Claudix creates performance and Virtual Reality art that challenges the narrative of technological inevitability by mixing new technologies with ancestral traditions. Their recent work is a provocation about the human embodiment of Extended Realities and Artificial Intelligence, as a form of liberal transhumanism.
Support credits
Beta Festival is co-founded by The Digital Hub and is a Project Arts Centre Associate Festival with ADAPT Research Centre as research partner.
Image credit
Bruno Moraes
Dates & Times
20 & 21 November
20 Nov: 7:45pm
21 Nov: 2:30pm
Tickets
€20/18
Space
Cube
Duration
65 minutes (35 mins + 30 mins post-show)
Warnings
Contains nudity.
Genres
Festival
Image Gallery
https://vimeo.com/
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