XenoEntities Network (XEN) was a platform for discussion and experimentation focusing on queer, gender, and feminist theories and their intersections with science, digital technologies, and collective futurities. The project had its inception in 2016 at the community, art, and science space SPEKTRUM, in Berlin, and was organized by Lou Drago, Pedro Marum, and Zander Porter until 2020.

XEN-hybrid programs blend curation with artistic practice, focusing on community-oriented exchanges, with collectivity as a cornerstone for an experimental epistemological practice. Programs comprise a diverse alchemy of expressions and formats between performance, film and video screenings, live installations, lectures, and panels. Often participatory and relational, XEN’s work highlights fringe discourses, investigating contemporary and media art, post- and transhumanist bodies and minds, strands of techno-, cyber-, quantum- and xenofeminism(s), the ubiquitous dissemination of digital technologies of surveillance and capture, the (im)possibilities of virtual and augmented realities, the Anthropocene and ecological crisis, and future utopias and ruins of club culture.

Collaborations between XEN and community spaces, galleries, institutions, and universities include ACUD MACHT NEU (Berlin), Agora (Berlin), Disruption Network Lab (Berlin), Gropius Bau (Berlin), Hares & Hyenas (Melbourne), Institute of Art & Art Theory (Cologne), Kampnagel (Hamburg), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Mimosa House (London), Rabbit Hole (Lisbon), Rama em Flor (Lisbon), Room E-10 27 (Berlin), Scent Club (Berlin), SomoS (Berlin), SPACE10 (Copenhagen), SPEKTRUM (Berlin), transmediale (Berlin), Uferstudios für Zeitgenössischen Tanz (Berlin), Unsound (Kraków), and Zé dos Bois Gallery (Lisbon).

In addition, XEN has organized “Assemblages,” free-access gatherings to (discuss) research where participants propose topics and ideas within a contextual scope. Speakers from different fields are invited to collaboratively organize round-table discussions complete with readings of relevant materials, texts, or artworks.

XEN speculates towards new forms of existence and explores the expansion of bodies and subjectivities within the digital realm. XEN is an open-community platform for anyone from any background who has an interest or curiosity in these topics and/or is willing to expand/corrupt/disrupt them in contexts that explore new ontological forms and connections in community.