Pandemonia is an anonymous artist who explores consumer culture, self-image, and social media through her meticulously constructed persona: a seven-foot-tall, hyper-idealised woman who embodies the excesses and contradictions of our time.

In this talk, she sits down with a panel to examine how media shapes identity, desire, and power. The discussion ranges across body image, the concept of the Übermensch, plastic surgery, advertising, and late-stage capitalism, while questioning whether we are entering an era in which the distinction between the ‘real’ and the ‘unreal’ is being eroded.

Expect an entertaining, provocative, and eye-opening critique of modern culture, one that confronts our collective anxieties around visibility, perfection, gender, and consumption in an image-saturated world.

Topics: Media, Advertising, Fashion, Psychology, Gender

Philosophy of:
Marshall McLuhan (The Global Village);
Judith Butler (Gender);
Ferdinand de Saussure (Semiotics)