Yael Bartana
What If Women Ruled The World, 2016
Neon
250 x 98 cm
98.43 x 38.58 inches
98.43 x 38.58 inches
B-YBARTANA-.18-0001
This neon its related to Yael Bartana’s experimental theatre and film project What If Women Ruled the World premiered at the Manchester International Festival in 2017. Following Stanley Kubrick’s sexist...
This neon its related to Yael Bartana’s experimental theatre and film project What If Women Ruled the World premiered at the Manchester International Festival in 2017. Following Stanley Kubrick’s sexist prophecy at the end of Dr. Strangelove (1964), of a serving nucleus of male leaders repopulating the earth, this project imagines the opposite: What if women ruled the world? Addressing a new emergency scenario every day-issues of security and defence, mass migration, climate change-eleven leading actors are joined during each session by a different group of experts. Female scientists, politicians, and thinkers spend an evening in Dr. Strangelove’s war room trying to solve the emergency before it’s too late.