YWY, Searching for a Character between Future Worlds: Gender, Ecology, Science Fiction

Conceived by Pedro Neves Marques, YWY is an android played by indigenous actress and artist Zahy Guajajara, who gave her the name “YWY,” meaning “land” or “territory” in her native Tupi-Guarani language. The character’s co-invention by a white European author and a native artist from Brazil sets in motion a dynamic that can be resolved only by being given away and shared with a plurality of voices. YWY, Searching for a Character Between Future Worlds shares the fictional character of YWY with several authors from Brazil, the United States, and beyond, creating a conversation about science fiction and robotics, ecology and gender, Indigenous Futurisms and what it means to be human.

Editor Pedro Neves Marques
Authors Eliane Potiguara, Grace L. Dillon, M. Elizabeth Ginway, Marisol de la Cadena, New Red Order, Nikita Yingqian Cai, Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino, Pedro Neves Marques, Rosa Lleó, Suzanne Kite, Zahy Guajajara
Copyediting and Proofreading Exilio Gráfico
Translations From Portuguese to English: Pedro Neves Marques ("My Green Stone and My Confinement for an Entire Life", "Iron Woman", "The Cosmovisions of an Android", and "YWY's Roots, A Timeless Tragedy"); From Spanish to English: Aisha Prigann ("Female Robots, Plants, Sisters" and the presentation text by the Regional Government of Madrid)
Design ATLAS Projectos
Published by CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo and Sternberg Press on the occasion of the exhibition Pedro Neves Marques. YWY, Visions, CA2M, May 13-July 11, 2021
1º ed. 2022
ISBN 978-3-95679-616-6
Number of pages 229
Language EN