In their 2016 essay Pedro Neves Marques asked “How Many Natures Can Nature Nurture?”(1). Looking at their more recent essays (2), we want to explore the multiplicity of futures and natures that Pedro Neves Marques’ work deals with: multinaturalism, afrofuturism, science fiction and political agency of sex, alterities against colonial power, oppression, and manipulation.
They suggest, “that while we need to invent new terms no longer tied to old categories, we must also allow common terms to explode and vary. I am talking about the openness and variability of the human, as a concept, and correlatedly of nature”. (3)
This reading session is part of HOME Artist Film Weekender 2020 and usual in collaboration with Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur, Berlin.
Image credit: Exterminator Seed, dir. Pedro Neves Marques, 2017
1 Pedro Neves Marques (2016): How Many Natures Can Nature Nurture? The Human, Multinaturalism and Variation, In Elemental Propositions, ed. Ashkan Sepahvand et al. Beirut: Sursock Museum (summer 2016)
2 In: Futurity Report vol.I edited by E.C.H. de Bruyn and Lütticken, S., Sternberg Press, Berlin
3 Pedro Neves Marques (2016): How Many Natures Can Nature Nurture? The Human, Multinaturalism and Variation, In Elemental Propositions, ed. Ashkan Sepahvand et al. Beirut: Sursock Museum (summer 2016), p. 7.