youterus

SEEMAWORLD: youterus is a fictional planet within which speculative storytelling takes place. Aspiring to planet earth, Youterus is the vantage point from which interlocking stories of this world emerge filmically and episodically.

The Scrawny Beauties of Ethni City (2023) solo exhibition at QUAD (Derby) in September 2023.

Images of immersive elements as part this exhibition, where audiences selected one of four original SEEMAWORLD characters before entering a speculative nightclub on the planet Youterus.

Photo credit: Chris Seddon

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  • Resistance Creatures of Youterus (2025)

    A specu-zine about some of the resistance creatures of Planet Youterus, activated by a moving image concoction of 3d animation and 2d time lapses.

  • ZINDA! (2024) trailer

    ZINDA! (2024) trailer

    A Youteran folk-punk band visit their other~worldly cousins in Birmingham, and experience the sonic wonders of a diasporic planet Earth - bringing their own darkwave~carnivalesque vibes along the way...

  • The Scrawny Beauties of Ethni City (2023) exhibition reel

    The Scrawny Beauties of Ethni City (2023) exhibition reel

    A main component of solo exhibition, The Scrawny Beauties of Ethni City (2023) at QUAD (Derby, UK), included a large-scale installation mimicking a real-life carousel. Here, sits a song and dance about song and dance (2023), which introduces the origins of engodamy - an unfolding narrative inside SEEMAWORLD’s planet Youterus. 

  • NO BLASPHEMIES (2021) trailer

    NO BLASPHEMIES (2021) trailer

    Performed through the artist's own cosplay, NO BLASPHEMIES (2021) is a satirical music video, which alludes to the conventions of Youterus - a dystopian planet shackled by the caste and labour imbalances it has learned from planet earth. Within SEEMAWORLD, this work looks to Vidding as a framework and falls under Seema's exploration into Fan Labour.

  • 우정 (2021) trailer

    우정 (2021) trailer

    By depicting the delicacies of her most historical and cherished friendships, Seema explores the blossoming of new friendships - which have been made possible through a 2021 exchange programme with Soft Focus.

  • T-Pose (2021) trailer

    T-Pose (2021) trailer

    A purely animated insight, which takes the real-life movements, gestures and behaviours of Seema in another time, another space, another hair colour... and reimagines them within the narrative arc of fictional planet, Youterus - through some who reside there