Fake bird clown
by Gareth Ioan Davies

The project invites us to question our anthropic entanglement with the Gorilla and our ethical perceptions of a more-than-human world. It offers a multi-layered and playful journey that weaves between real-world engagement and virtual gaming spaces. It reveals the ecological and technological vulnerabilities between species, and the challenges we face in finding a common ground of equitable understanding in which the non-human need not suffer.

Might we as a species improve the way we live on this planet if we listen to other forms of sentient beings? As James Bridle notes in his book “Ways of Being”, humankind’s challenge is to acknowledge all multiple forms of intelligence through mutual entanglement that manifests new associations. We need an awareness of other systems of communication and interaction beyond our present-day human-centered encounters.