Astro chimp is an animation by artist Lisa Roet and Maurice Agiro.
Celebrating the journey of the NASA trained Chimapnzee named HAM into outer space before any human. Taken as a baby from Africa and trained for 6 months at NASA, USA HAM , his pioneering journey malfunctioned and he endured 10x the G Force endured by any human on a flight into outer-space.
His heroic journey paved the way for safe human Space Travel.
Addressing the journey of NASDA Chimpanzee HAM on the maiden voyage into outer space and the propaganda Video released by NASA to portray the journey of HAM this artwork uses animation and real footage to portray the real version of events. .
We are all apes, is artist Lisa Roet’s clarion call in I am Ape, a new monograph of her three decade career.
