Screening:
ROBOTA MML
Salt Galata
June 13 – September 26, 2024
Still from Itziar Barrio’s ROBOTA MML (2023)
Courtesy the artist
Courtesy the artist
Auditorium
ROBOTA MML (2023)
Director: Itziar Barrio
Performers: Ainhoa Hernández, Cuqui Jerez, Anto Rodríguez, Mina Serrano, Cary Rosa Varona, Javier Vaquero Ollero, La Dalia Negra collective
61 minutes
Spanish; Turkish and English subtitles
The longer version of Itziar Barrio’s ROBOTA MML, presented as part of the exhibition Let Us Go Back to the Beginning, will be screened in the Auditorium at Salt Galata at scheduled times.
The term robot derives from the Czech word robota, meaning “forced labor,” which was coined in Karel Čapek’s science-fiction play R.U.R. (1920). Drawing on the ideas introduced in the play, ROBOTA MML engages with current issues around labor and production. The artist repositions R.U.R.’s characters in a contemporary context where identity and gender are undefined. Replacing the factory setting with an underground nightclub, she transforms the story into an allegory for bodily desires. The work explores the creative and destructive potentials of human-machine interactions and the underlying forces of power, domination, and subversion. The film’s visual references include Théodore Géricault’s painting Le Radeau de la Méduse [The Raft of the Medusa] (1818-1819) and Luis Buñuel’s El ángel exterminador [The Exterminating Angel] (1962).
Dates:
Thursday, June 13, 19.00
Thursday, July 11, 19.00
Thursday, August 15, 19.00
Thursday, September 5, 19.00
Thursday, September 26, 19.00
In accordance with Article 7 of Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, films that have not been assessed and classified by the General Directorate of Cinema, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Republic of Turkey, can only be screened under the classification of 18+ at festivals, special screenings or similar culture and arts events.
ROBOTA MML (2023)
Director: Itziar Barrio
Performers: Ainhoa Hernández, Cuqui Jerez, Anto Rodríguez, Mina Serrano, Cary Rosa Varona, Javier Vaquero Ollero, La Dalia Negra collective
61 minutes
Spanish; Turkish and English subtitles
The longer version of Itziar Barrio’s ROBOTA MML, presented as part of the exhibition Let Us Go Back to the Beginning, will be screened in the Auditorium at Salt Galata at scheduled times.
The term robot derives from the Czech word robota, meaning “forced labor,” which was coined in Karel Čapek’s science-fiction play R.U.R. (1920). Drawing on the ideas introduced in the play, ROBOTA MML engages with current issues around labor and production. The artist repositions R.U.R.’s characters in a contemporary context where identity and gender are undefined. Replacing the factory setting with an underground nightclub, she transforms the story into an allegory for bodily desires. The work explores the creative and destructive potentials of human-machine interactions and the underlying forces of power, domination, and subversion. The film’s visual references include Théodore Géricault’s painting Le Radeau de la Méduse [The Raft of the Medusa] (1818-1819) and Luis Buñuel’s El ángel exterminador [The Exterminating Angel] (1962).
Dates:
Thursday, June 13, 19.00
Thursday, July 11, 19.00
Thursday, August 15, 19.00
Thursday, September 5, 19.00
Thursday, September 26, 19.00
