Foreword

Written By Andrea Polli

The artists in this section examine the ways in which humans interact with non-human species, through thoughtfully cultivating the ‘other’ and through integrating the bodies or remains of non-humans into their work. In many cases, human and non-human organisms are or have been mediated.

Primate Cinema: Apes as Family

Primate Cinema: Apes as Family is an original drama made expressly for chimpanzees which premiered in front of an actual chimpanzee audience. The drama-for-chimps follows an urban female chimp, played by an actor in an animatronic costume, who meets a group of wild foreigners.

Gila 2.0

Gila 2.0: Warding Off the Wolf is a response to the grievance that wolf depredations are the cause of widespread livestock loss and intense emotional stress among the Gila’s rural populations.

Introducing ‘the Original’ Lobo Louie

We were looking for any signs of lobos, to see what we could learn about the critically endangered Mexican gray wolves, of which there are only 58 left alive outside of confinement.

Sound Colony

Sound Colony functions as an acoustic chamber, a human-scaled portal into the communicative modes that connect the world of the hive with the practice of beekeeping.

West Again

The work featured samples of micro-greens and basil grown onboard, and rinsed clean on site.

The People's PCR

Paul Vanouse’s residency project for ISEA2012 at Neo Rio Questa titled The People’s PCR helps to democratize high-end genetic engineering tools.