An opportunity for some very urban exchanges between primates swimming in the same zoos.
Performance at the Hunting and Nature Museum for the Museum Night.
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SKIN ON ZOOS - Performance
A monkey in the hunting museum
Paris, 20 May 2017 at the Hunting and Nature Museum
A skillful talker monkey, reports in front of onlookers, of his triumphs over other earthly creatures through film projections, travesties of all kinds, music-hall moments, harangues and private interviews with spectators.
"The Fleece sleeps" at the Generator | Photo © Karine Lhémon
From the treatment of nature that surrounds him to himself, man has a trophy!
Trading one misery for another, he has only come out of the caves to turn the weapons of his survival against his own species. "You idiots", perhaps the beast thinks, and says nothing. If the phallus is not the origin of all war, its symbols are those of the violence that inhabits the wild human impulsesAll sexes, except perhaps the 3thThe one of indifferentiation that doesn't care about gender or race. The one who, in order to ensure his existence, disguises himself as the other, woman, man, animal, a nameless and pleasant thing of despair: the jester.
