Title: The elephant in the room: Uses and misuses of animals in curatorial practice
Abstract: Positioned at the entrance to 'Menagerie', the recent exhibition at Melbourne's Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Robert Gligorov's video Bobe's Legend (1998) was an arresting work. In a time-lapse sequence, the artist, lying flat, slowly opened his mouth, allowing a canary to emerge and then fly away. As curator Juliana Engberg wrote: Gligorov's endurance seems acute, and his physicality stretched, as his mouth must first hold inwards to provide protection for the embryonic form, then widen outwards to allow the escaping bird to fulfil its own destiny.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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