Hylozoic Transgression

Photography CAMERON TIDBALL-SCIULLO Creative Direction & Fashion ALEXANDRA AMY and DAEDALUS GUONING LI Models CAM MORI, DIMANI KEY, JIMI LUCID, KALE HOUCHENS, LEAH YING LIN, TARA RAANI and VALENTINE AMARI Set Design SEAIRRA MILLER Hair LATISHA CHONG Make-Up DAEDALUS GUONING LI Nails CITLALI GUTIERREZ Special Thanks ELENA NICOLÁS BEELEY, JAMIE TIANXIN SHI and TRACEY TIANYI SHI

Corporate technologies continue to encroach upon civilization, invading the private realm and threatening the commons. The cracks of hyper-capitalism reveal themselves as an increasingly precarious future unfolds, threatening marginalized workers who otherwise refuse to conform to the status quo, but must perform to institutional standards for a living wage.

Hylozoic Transgression is a vision of post-apocalyptic queer futurism that frames the corporate office space as a microcosm of capitalism and depicts the struggle for a new order in its wreckage. While a group of office clerks performs rote, mechanical, activities during the workday, suffocated by monotony and the fragmentation of their abilities, they dissociate and fantasize about a foreign utopia in which their true selves can thrive. As night sets in, these vulnerable interiors breakthrough and mutate with their outer shells, leaving behind a new species.

The violent juxtaposition of this fantastical space against the confines of the sterile office captures the deeply internalized struggle for survival within the corrupted public realm. The workers retaliate against corporate dehumanization by forging transgressive new identities in the very space that severs their creative yearnings from their productive process. Together, they birth an alternate reality in which the true self can be expressed, manifested, and healed. Shared autonomy liberates through intimacy. Matter reasserts itself as life.

Clothes ALEXANDRA AMY, FEY FEY WORLDWIDE, JAMALL OSTERHOLM, JONO CHEONG, LEVI CAMPELLO, MASHA KURGUZKINA and ZEHUA WU Accessories HELENA DONG, INAUREM, JON NG, SHERIDAN TJHUNG and STUDIO COPULA