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Jona Wolf studied architecture at Studio Greg Lynn and Studio Wolf D. Prix and graduated in 2015. Jona Wolf is Alumni in Residence at AIL in September and October. During their residency at AIL, Jona will create a series of works exploring how cultural body norms and beauty standards reinforce the gender binary. The project aims to empower the gender fluidity of trans people while also raising awareness of how gender norms affect and restrict everyone in society. Mishaps in Spacetime, 2025, 12 min Dir: Caio Amado Soares Doubt creeps in as Cosmo, a space traveller, addresses his gender identity. In need of clarity and change, he wants to risk crossing the Butterfly Nebula. His spaceship, on the other hand, has a personality of her own. Cosmo will need to negotiate change with a certain loss of control. Queendom, 2023, 98 min Dir: Agniia Galdanova Gena, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism - and put her life in danger.
