Mythic Hybrid

2002

Website with digital video

This project stems from reports I found online linking collective hallucination experienced by women in South Asian microelectronics factories to globalization. Using the platform of an online search engine and video footage I shot on-site at a microelectronics factory in India, this project explored the often-mythologized links between hysteria and women’s labor.

This project was created with support from Creative Capital and the Greenwall Foundation. It is a 2002 commission of Turbulence.org.

Related Links:

Ludin, Diane. “Interview with Prema Murthy.” Thing.net Reviews (Winter 2003). Also posted on Nettime.(16 Janurary 2003).

Griffiths, Ryan. “Review of Prema Murthy’s Mythic Hybrid.” Rhizome Digest (22 November 2002).

Willis, Holly. "Project Essay, Prema Murthy: Mythic Hybrid." Creative Capital Channel (2002).