An unpublished video by Frances Mckenzie on our historical period: MAXXI presents it

From March 3 to 5, MAXXI presents the unedited video Bedfellows, a reflection on the alienating condition of our historical period, directed by Canadian Frances Mckenzie (One Hundred Mile House, Canada, 1983). With this video the artist questions what it means to live, thrive and die, and proposes a radically different future inspired by forest biology and feminist ecology.

Using a rich repertoire of video effects and narrative voices interpreting texts by poets Maya Khamala and David M. Armstrong, Bedfellows confronts us with otherness and invites us to see life through the eyes of nonhuman creatures and consciousnesses. Inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer ’s writings on forest and environmental biology and Ursula Le Guin’s writings on futurist anthropology, the artist imagines a new way of life by borrowing concepts such as sexual mimicry, evolution, and collaboration among species from nature. Bedfellows points to a future of female ecology and insists on the possibility that poetry, love, and history can lead us beyond the fear of change, to new horizons.

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Pictured: Frances Mckenzie.

An unpublished video by Frances Mckenzie on our historical period: MAXXI presents it

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