Animal-Human Performance
14min 6 channel video, Beijing , China
Artists Lisa Roet and Shen Shaomin combined their mutual interest in the human /animal condition in a project facilitated in. Beijing over a period of two years. Based on an experiment using hypnosis and group of volunteers were enlisted to reach primal language through hypnosis. Animal Farms were released amongst the human animals and a chaotic performance was born. As participants came out of hypnosis they were removed to be the audience. A 6 camera crew filmed the outcome of this bazaar yet pertinent ("Animal Farmesque" project highlighting the cahnging politics of the moment.
We are all apes, is artist Lisa Roet’s clarion call in I am Ape, a new monograph of her three decade career.