Georgia Horgan

Lives and works in Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

Artist statement

My artistic practice focuses on videos and texts that explore “feminized” forms of sharing information — such as gossip, confession, fantasy, autofiction, and autotheory — as ways of imagining what a feminist strategy for writing history might look like. My previous work has moved across historical moments, from medieval mystic cults to English Civil War "political pornographies", through to modern-day women’s trade union organising. This method aims to extend the Marxist contention that by revealing the structural conditions for the existence of capitalist society, it is possible to read the past as something that survives into the present. I am currently working on a film that deals with more recent events. Titled "Honda Celaya has everything to do with my sex life", the plot follows a romance between a young woman and an "otaku" (the Japanese term for foreigners obsessed with their culture). In an attempt to recreate a scene from her favorite anime, she subjects her own body to an automotive diagnostic procedure. The force shaping the characters’ desires and behaviors is the Japanese automotive industry in Mexico, whose epicenter is Celaya, Guanajuato. Beginning in 2005, several Japanese carmakers established operations there, attracted by favorable export tariffs and a young, inexpensive workforce. At the same time, Japanese studios sold anime broadcasting rights at a low cost to Mexican public television stations as part of a soft-power strategy. As a result, anime...

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