Installation views at CaixaForum (Barcelona),
CA2M (Madrid), and 1646 (The Hague)
CA2M (Madrid), and 1646 (The Hague)
Android Loop
2021. Vinyl lettering on walls, dimensions variable to the space. The piece can be translated into any language.
Android Loop is a large wall text piece set to the scale of the gallery walls, creating a loop around the exhibition space. The piece consists of up to 26 text compositions, between poetic writings and quotes from literature and the arts to historical research on the history of androids. Humorous at times, at others incisively polical, the piece expresses how this cultural robotic figure has always stood as a template for gender issues, the control of sexuality, the ontological distinction between humans and animals, as well as a long history of race and class. The piece can be displayed in different scales and forms in any exhibition walls in order to be site-specifically installed. Originally in English, the piece has been translated into several other languages, including Spanish, Catallan, and Ze'eg eté, language of the Tenetehara-Guajajara indigenous people.
Android Loop is part of the YWY series of artworks and films, as well as the book YWY, Searching for a Character Between Future Worlds: Ecology, Gender, Science Fiction, edited by Pedro Neves Marques and published by Sternberg Press and CA2M, with contributions by Grace Dillon, Marisol de la Cadena, New Red Order, Rosa Lleó, Suzanne Kite, Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino, Elizabeth Ginway, and Eliane Potiguara. For more info see the exhibition YWY, Visions, developed in dialogue with Indigenous actress and artist Zahy Guajajara.
2021. Vinyl lettering on walls, dimensions variable to the space. The piece can be translated into any language.
Android Loop is a large wall text piece set to the scale of the gallery walls, creating a loop around the exhibition space. The piece consists of up to 26 text compositions, between poetic writings and quotes from literature and the arts to historical research on the history of androids. Humorous at times, at others incisively polical, the piece expresses how this cultural robotic figure has always stood as a template for gender issues, the control of sexuality, the ontological distinction between humans and animals, as well as a long history of race and class. The piece can be displayed in different scales and forms in any exhibition walls in order to be site-specifically installed. Originally in English, the piece has been translated into several other languages, including Spanish, Catallan, and Ze'eg eté, language of the Tenetehara-Guajajara indigenous people.
Android Loop is part of the YWY series of artworks and films, as well as the book YWY, Searching for a Character Between Future Worlds: Ecology, Gender, Science Fiction, edited by Pedro Neves Marques and published by Sternberg Press and CA2M, with contributions by Grace Dillon, Marisol de la Cadena, New Red Order, Rosa Lleó, Suzanne Kite, Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino, Elizabeth Ginway, and Eliane Potiguara. For more info see the exhibition YWY, Visions, developed in dialogue with Indigenous actress and artist Zahy Guajajara.