Final ‘film” and Open Studio
I created a short film comprised of the various film, animation and performance experiments I carried out during this second month of my residency. This film was projected into the studio space (where I also did a live performance) during the Open Studios. The second video documents my live performance (filmed by Kingson Chan).
Below - film of my live performance by Kingson Chan
Above - copyright Kingson Chan
ABOVE: Photos by Ana Carucci. Copyright Ana Carucci and AADK Spain.
Exhibition Statement
This month I wanted to explore how our human relationship with nature, animals and objects may have been influenced by the Victorian era, focusing on monkeys as intermediary creatures.
Monkeys have often served as a means to help us navigate our complex relationship with the natural world and our place within it. I’ve been exploring this mostly through the capuchin monkey, a New World primate, which became a popular pet and status symbol for the Upper classes following the colonisation of the New World.
The western Victorian period, for me at least, is characterised by the “discovery” (and pillaging) of “new” lands, domestication and mass production following the industrial revolution and the invention of the industrial printing press.
Through the interaction between my created “Victorian Girl” character and my capuchin glove puppet, I have been investigating the thresholds between the wild and domesticated, and the “real” and the artificial.
This investigation is a work in progress.
