Lovely to Meet You
Cy X is a performance-artist, writer, and somatic researcher born under Southern-American skies to farmers, witches, educators, and musicians. They now live between New York City and Germany as they complete a Live Arts and Performative Practice Masters at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg.
Currently, they are worlding a PERVERTED PRACTICE, reclaiming eroticism and critical perversion as a political method. Here, sabotage, misuse, and deviance become tools to unfuck // hack // top(ple) unjust systems.
Their practice dives into everything from participatory performance to printed matter and cyber-sensual experiments, rooted in ecstasy and tenderness and reaching toward a boundless, nonconforming kinship that tangles the erotic with the ecological and the body with the more-than-human. A devotee of perversion as ritual and sensation as knowledge, Cy’s art insists on disrupting the separation between self and other, inviting every viewer, reader, and collaborator to risk getting closer, deeper, and transformed.
ON CYBERWITCHCRAFT
From 2021 to 2024, Cy’s work centered on Cyber Witchcraft, a practice that explored the intersections of magic, ritual, and technology. As a student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and amid the disorienting early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, they developed this practice as both a means of survival and a portal for deeper connection. During this time, they also began formally studying somatics, energy work, and herbalism outside of NYU, which reshaped their understanding of technology—not just as a tool, but as a living, breathing system of interdependence. In 2021, during a Processing Foundation Fellowship, they had the invaluable support of their mentor Johanna Hedva, who encouraged them to write toward a more eco-sensual and embodied relationship with technology. That work, and that relationship, brought their practice into a radical new orientation.
BEYOND THE SOLO PRACTICE
Outside of their solo-practice, they teach as an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Media Arts Low Res program and organize independent workshops on ecology, eroticism, somatics, sex education, and technology.
They have previously been a resident and/or had work featured in: Center for Art Research and Alliances, Culture Hub, New Inc’s Creative Science track (Year 11), Pioneer Works, The Processing Foundation, POWRPLNT, The School for Poetic Computation, Rewire Festival, and other spaces, both digital and physical.
They are also the co-founder of Synth Library NYC, an electronic music equipment and synthesizer library currently in residency at Hex House (Brooklyn, NY).
METHOD
Every six months to a year, they are guided towards a one-word topic, such as hole, tube, or milk. These topics become portals that they open up conceptually, materially, socially, and somatically through a process they call EROS STUDY.
From there, they translate research into forms that can be touched and shared: performances that unfold in time, sculptures that encourage new somatic scores, texts that revive love, sound art that reminds you you have a body, and public gatherings that invite participation rather than spectatorship.