#01: Entropy in the kitchen
‘What would Barbarella do?’, presented by Arrate Hidalgo, is another programme which consonni presents. In this sonic space, the Bilbao feminist science fiction festival co-ordinator and translator Ansible Fest dissects the key topics on current feminism through science fiction. With scalpel in hand, she takes a speculative text and extracts the debate to look for its mutations in other fiction styles and in contemporary feminist thought. She is accompanied by the critic Laura Lazcano in her section dedicated to audiovisual.
Episode Nº 01 'Entropy in the kitchen'
In 1967, the artist and experimental US author Pamela Zoline, broke down with The Thermal Death of the Universe the weariness ‘till delirium of Sarah Boyle, a middle class Californian housewife, key of treaty on entropy. In this first episode we will talk about the domestic space, going through the story and the speculative novel, the archetype of an unhinged housewife in films such as Stepford Wives and the vision of the Xenofeminist Manifesto of the collective Laboria Cuboniks on this topic.
Readings “The Heat Death of the Universe” - Pamela Zoline Material Girls: Women, Men, and Work - Lindsey German Manifiesto xenofeminista - Laboria Cuboniks (t. Giancarlo Morales Sandoval) Record of a Spaceborn Few - Becky Chambers “The space crone” - Ursula K. Le Guin
Films and TV shows El cerebro de Donovan (1953, Felix Feist) Cadáveres atómicos (1955, Edward L. Cahn) La mosca (1958, Kurt Neumann) El increíble hombre menguante (1957, Jack Arnold) El pueblo de los malditos (1960, Wolf Rilla) Las esposas de Stepford (1975, Bryan Forbes) Engendro mecánico (1977, Donald Cammell) Blade Runner 2019 (2017, Denis Villeneuve)
Music Sad Alron - Mark Pritchard Modo Comprar 1 y 2 de la banda sonora de Los Sims Mobius Streak - Hiatus Kaiyote Plum Song - Omodaka