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Project name Cinema For Primates
Organisation
Persons Rachel Mayeri
City
Country EEUU
Period 2011
URL http://www.rachelmayeri.com/projects/primate-cinema/
Tags cinema, primates, science, psicology, artwork, animals, tests, project, zoo, biology, zoology,
Text Cinema for Primates is a series of videos designed and presented for chimpanzees at Edinburgh Zoo. Chimpanzees in captivity are shown television as a form of enrichment, but no artists have made videos expressly for chimps. After showing a series of test videos to the chimps to learn their preferences, the artist will script and produce a synthetic chimpanzee drama. The video will be installed at the zoo, so that both human and non-human primates can simultaneously watch the show and each other’s responses to it. The project is intended to imagine the inner world of the captive chimpanzee, producing an original artwork—enrichment for humans and chimpanzees.