[13-01-2021] YWY, The Android: Video Screening and Conversation with Pedro Neves Marques
CLUE+ and the Environmental Humanities Center cordially invite you to this online event.
01/13/2021 | 5:00 PM
Date: 13 January 2021
Time: 17:00-18:00
Registration: Environmental Humanities Center
Schedule
17:00-17:05: Welcome, Prof. dr. Katja Kwastek, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
17:05-17:15: Screening of the video "YWY, the Android" (2017)
17:15-17:35: Lecture by Pedro Neves Marques, artist, filmmaker and writer
17:35-18:00: Q&A
On the occasion of their solo exhibition at 1646 in The Hague, artist and filmmaker Pedro Neves Marques will screen their work “YWY, the Android”, followed by a lecture and Q&A. In the video, set in a present-future, YWY, an indigenous android, talks with a GMO corn crop in the agricultural interior of Brazil. In a moment of intimacy, the woman, whom we come to understand is a field worker, and the plants talk about bodily rights, infertility, labor and monocrops. The film is part of a series of films and artworks starring actress Zahy Guajajara as YWY, which started with the short film “Exterminator Seed” in 2017 and will continue to be developed throughout 2021.
