woman robot voice

Digital contemporary retake of Shelley Lake's eerie video 'Polly gone' (1988). 'Polly Gone' was a critique of the gendered role of the housewife. Although the music is 1980s techno, the eeriness and themes somewhat recalls Chantal Akerman's video 'Saute ma ville' (1968). In 'Polly Returns', the robot has taken a more humane physiognomy, and the relation to the screen has changed. Polly has become an integral part of the screen, and her gendered role has acquired complexity that goes beyond domestic chores. Rolling text instructs her in a very neoliberal way how to be simultaneously a perfect housewife, a politically conscious citizen, a productive worker and a caring mum, among others.

The Sphynx is a game in which a woman robot voice asks questions and the reader can only answer yes or no. The questions are about love relationships, gender ¡ssues and society. Each correct answer allows continuing the game, an incorrect answer finishes the game. The correction or error of the answers does not need to correspond with any kind of science or thruth, but simply with an identity that corresponds with the way of being and thinking of Dora García.