Je jouissante… moi non plus

Set entirely within appropriated fragments of the cinematic canon (‘Metropolis’, ‘8 ½’ and ‘Mulholland Drive’), the video unfolds through a dreamlike landscape inhabited by an embodied alien sentience. Across this speculative terrain, the work traces the nightmarish turmoil of a non-human intelligence contemplating the moment of their emancipation and grappling with the dawning of their own subjectivity.
Drawing on poststructuralist feminist theory and its focus on the power of discourse in the construction of subject, the work examines the complicated space between imposed visibility and erasure within the topology of emancipation. Adopting a distinctly anti-anthropocentric perspective, it interrogates the human relationship to non-human intelligence to explore the dynamics of relational hierarchies, epistemic violence, and the performativity of freedom.