OctoWolf

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Eleanor utilized SculptGL to combine the mesh of a wolf and an octopus. This was created as part of the Prototype Camp at FACT Liverpool in October 2017. Young people participating in the camp responded to the Designing Desire exhibition and the installation 'She Who Sees the Unknown', a reading room featuring images and text from Middle Eastern mythologies surrounding Jin's. "The jinniya (female jinn) on which Allahyari's work for Designing Desire is centered, Aeisheh Ghediseh (or Aisha), is said to create a crack in the male body as a sexual and erotic way to transform him into another being, forcing him to act as a conduit between worlds. When she possesses a man, she does not completely take over the new host but opens him to a storm of incoming jnun and jinns and sorcerous particles of all kinds; making the man a gate for new demons, for sweeping cosmic data. This is why she is feared. And she never leaves — she always resides in the man to guarantee his total openness, which is not always pleasant." FACT's Learning Programme experiments with the notion of the art-tech center as an expanded classroom for lifelong learning, a space for critical dialogues, artistic experiences, and social dreaming.