EIAG:december 2025

Nov 27, 2025

hello from berlin! <3

we’ve just had our first event outside of london at Trust Support berlin. thank you to Socrates Stamatatos, Jan Berger, Ria Schöneberger, and Nick Houde for presenting, and for Lina Martin-Chan for organizing with me. the theme was CAMP, and the presentations responded to the question: how does the legacy of camp aesthetics connect to today’s digital cultures?

on Monday (dec 1) we will be hosting THE CYBERBAROQUE SYMPOSIUM at Anomalous Space in Angel at 6-9:30 PM. Tickets here.
“In EIAG’s most self-indulgent event yet, curator Ester Freider presents a symposium on the neologism 𝒸𝓎𝒷𝑒𝓇𝒷𝒶𝓇𝑜𝓆𝓊𝑒 from her essay “I LOST TRACK OF WHAT WAS REAL”. Using Belle Delphine, Deleuze, and William Egginton as guiding influence(r)s, the essay constructs the 𝒸𝓎𝒷𝑒𝓇𝒷𝒶𝓇𝑜𝓆𝓊𝑒 as an allegory for control or governance through sophistry. Some guiding questions for the symposium will be: How does the ethos of advertising affect the contemporary artmaking process? How have baroque characteristics such as excess and illusion resurgere in contemporary media? What is the value of a trickster?”
Ft. Presentations from writer Gabrielle Sicam, writer MPS Simpson, and Ester, a prose reading from Janice Chan, a “SCREENSHOT BABEL” mini writing workshop from Ester and media theorist Gary Hall, a screening of Dana Dawud’s film MONAD, and exclusive EIAG merch. Drinks provided by Anomalous.

guest curator Arianna Munoz is hosting an open call for her substack release on HAGIOGRAPHY that closes on 30 November. Submit through this form.
“Guest curator @arianna.inesmunoz will be exploring the theme of Hagiography, or writings about the lives of saints. From the medieval era to today, society has idealised the virginal, martyred girl-saint - why are we drawn to the aestheticised ‘sad girl’? Why do women fetishise their own suffering? Who gets the ‘privilege’ of performing this girl-saint role, and how do those outside that ideal reject or challenge it?

Critical and creative, prose and poetry, vibrant and visual, I want it to see it all! Particularly interested in work that engages with the medieval origins of the virgin-martyr trope; the “Catholic Latina” aesthetic; mental health + girlhood, etc.”

thanks to Kristin Merrilees for interviewing me about EIAG for her lovely Substack publication Phone Time! you can read the interview: “Seduction, fandom, and performance: Ester Freider on everyone is a girl.” we’ve got some more press coming out soon too, i’m so excited although definitely noticed i ummm and say “i feel” a lot when i speak. keep an eye on Girl Employee…