How to Act Like an Animal workshop public performance

How to Act Like an Animal workshop public performance
The How to Act Like an Animal workshop, orchestrated by artist Rachel Mayeri as a part of her exhibition at TELIC, had a public performance last evening where participants restaged a nature documentary. “Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees” is a BBC Nature documentary, produced in 1996, chronicling the lives of the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Perhaps the most studied wild chimpanzees in the world, Fifi, Freud, Frodo, Ferdinand and Faustino are celebrities who have their own website and home movies. In the documentary, British primatologist Jane Goodall describes the family saga, with brothers vying for dominance, as a soap opera. Through Goodall’s eyes, we witness the construction of the contemporary meaning of “our closest relatives.” The live performance, Jane Goodall and The Wild Chimpanzees, explores what it means to be animal, and how documentary dramatizes nature. The troop includes: Suzan Averitt, Claire Cronin, Penny Folger, Estela Garcia, Dave Johnson, Diane Lefer, Adam Overton, and Joe Seeley. This performance is one of a series of experiments developed in the 3-week workshop at The Public School, How to Act Like an Animal.

Jane Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees

The How to Act Like an Animal workshop, orchestrated by artist Rachel Mayeri as a part of her exhibition at TELIC, had a public performance last evening where participants restaged a nature documentary.

“Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees” is a BBC Nature documentary, produced in 1996, chronicling the lives of the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Perhaps the most studied wild chimpanzees in the world, Fifi, Freud, Frodo, Ferdinand and Faustino are celebrities who have their own website and home movies. In the documentary, British primatologist Jane Goodall describes the family saga, with brothers vying for dominance, as a soap opera. Through Goodall’s eyes, we witness the construction of the contemporary meaning of “our closest relatives.”

The live performance, Jane Goodall and The Wild Chimpanzees, explores what it means to be animal, and how documentary dramatizes nature. The troop includes: Suzan Averitt, Claire Cronin, Penny Folger, Estela Garcia, Dave Johnson, Diane Lefer, Adam Overton, and Joe Seeley. This performance is one of a series of experiments developed in the 3-week workshop at The Public School, How to Act Like an Animal.

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