Choreography Archives – Maya B. Kronic

Maya B. Kronic (they/them) is a philosopher and Head of Research and Development at the publisher Urbanomic, which aims to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production. The Agent, patient, and product of ongoing research project on gender hyperstition and cute accelerationism, Maya B. Kronic is a recrypted iteration of the autist formerly known as Robin Mackay.

Maya has written and spoken on art and philosophy and has also worked with a number of artists developing cross-disciplinary projects, as well as translating innumerable essays and various book-length works of French philosophy.

Their research interests include: accelerationism, the ethics of intensity, subjectivity and the earth, the cute and the supernormal, deleuze and mathematics, and transphoria.

Available for editorial, proofreading, copy-editing, and translation (FR>EN) work, and commissions. Buy me a coffee.

2016

Return of the Faun (Formulations)

On Florian Hecker’s abstract opera FAVN.

Writing

2016

Die Rückkehr des Fauns/Return of the Faun

Preview programme notes for Florian Hecker’s FAVN (in German & English)

Writing

2015

Gesture as Playlist

Presentation on choreography and the digital, B3 Biennial of the Moving Image in Frankfurt

Writing

2011

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Programme notes for the John Gerrard and Wayne McGregor’s Royal Ballet performance Live Fire Exercise

Writing

2010

Infinite Freedom Exercise

Unpublished text on John Gerrard’s Infinite Freedom Exercise (Near Abadan, Iran), 2011.

Writing