Monster me slow (as I trans)

Monster me slow (as I trans)' reclaims monstrosity as a trans-specific site of resistance, a mutable site of possibility against bioessentialist violence. It offers an exploration of trans embodiment through the monster, a figure rendered outside of categories. Using a combination of 3D-scanning, metalwork, kinetics, and 3D-printing, the sculptural forms reflect fragmented technical extensions of designer Ever Peng’s body — at once intimate and machinic — refusing normative bodily coherence.

Drawing on trans theory and body horror, the work resists linear transformation and legible arrival. It instead, proposes the body as one in flux: a site of resistance, and beauty. Using real-time reactive visuals, the installation generates an entangled space of digital and physical, where the body is constantly in (re)negotiation through encounters. In the body extensions’ inhabitation and activation, the body mutates — generating a corporeal resistance, transforming violence and threat into speculative embodiment.