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10/05/2012- 10/01/2013: "THE REBIRTH OF PREHISTORIC CREATURES" (ACT 2- PERFORMANCE) WILL BE PART OF THE EXHIBITION POLITIQUE-FICTION, CITE DU DESIGN, SAINT ETIENNE (COMMISSAIRE D'EXPOSITION: ALEXANDRA MIDAL)
11/2011: LUCY from the series "The rebirth of Prehistoric Creatures" HAS BEEN ACQUIRED BY THE MoMA, NEW YORK FOR ITS PERMANENT COLLECTION
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PROPOSAL FOR RESUSCITATING PREHISTORIC CREATURES

ACT 1.

Is the ancient dream of resuscitating prehistoric creatures made possible by recent cloning technologies? I am on a pre-post historic epic journey which quest is
to resuscitate the sound of prehistoric creatures.


ACT 2.

A synthetic, unsettling murmur— is heard.The shadow is fast, a flash. In the space, an aura emerges. It was inconceivable to accept the possibility of an absence, an eternal extinction.

The renaissance will be presented in May 2012 as a sound performance (or “opera”) featuring three creatures vocal tracts.

 

THE LIVING DESCENDANTS: ASIAN ELEPHANT 3D RECONSTRUCTION FROM ORIGINAL CT-SCANS,

FROM THE INSTITUTE OF ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH, BERLIN

360 DEGREE/ LIVING READY-MADE, 2011

 

MAMMOTH IMPERATOR, VOCAL TRACT, -4,8M -4500 YEARS AGO, INSTALLATION VIEW, 600L X 300H X 100W CM

RESONANCE CAVITIES, LARYNX WITH VIBRATING VOCAL CORDS, WINDPIPE, AIR COMPRESSOR, PROGRAMMED BREATHING SYSTEM, SUBWOOFER

2011

 

ELEPHANT3D

THE LIVING DESCENDANTS: ASIAN ELEPHANT 3D RECONSTRUCTION FROM ORIGINAL CT-SCANS,

FROM THE INSTITUTE OF ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH, BERLIN

SCANNED READY-MADE, 2011

Frozen mammoth in Siberia

DIMA LIFTED ( IMAGE COURTESY RIA NOVOSTI)

Dima, Baby Mammoth. In 1977, the first complete baby mammoth was found—a 6–12-month-old male named “Dima".

 

lucy

"LUCY, Autralopithecus Afarensis", vocal tract, -4,4 -1M years ago, ( 50L X 115H X 30W CM)

Resonance cavities, larynx with vibrating vocal cords, windpipe, air compressor, programmed breathing system

2011

COLLECTION: MoMA, New York

 

 

MAMMOTH IMPERATOR, VOCAL TRACT, -4,8M -4500 YEARS AGO,

INSTALLATION VIEW, 600L X 300H X 100W CM

RESONANCE CAVITIES, LARYNXWITH VIBRATING VOCAL CORDS, WINDPIPE, AIR COMPRESSOR, PROGRAMMED BREATHING SYSTEM, SUBWOOFER

2011

 

LARYNX

 

 

MAMMOTH IMPERATOR, VOCAL TRACT, -4,8M -4500 YEARS AGO, INSTALLATION VIEW, 600L X 300H X 100W CM

RESONANCE CAVITIES, LARYNXWITH VIBRATING VOCAL CORDS, WINDPIPE, AIR COMPRESSOR, PROGRAMMED BREATHING SYSTEM, SUBWOOFER

2011

 

THE LIVING DESCENDANTS: ASIAN ELEPHANT 3D RECONSTRUCTION

FROM THE INSTITUTE OF ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH, BERLIN

SCANNED READY-MADE, 2011

 

THE LIVING DESCENDANTS: ASIAN ELEPHANT ORIGINAL CT-SCANS,

FROM THE INSTITUTE OF ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH, BERLIN

2011

 

KHATANGA, SIBERIA, GOOGLE EARTH SCREENSHOT

(THERE IS A MYSTERIOUS AREA WHERE REMAINS FROM EXTINCT CREATURES ARE FOUND... THIS

AREA IS UNACCESSIBLE FROM THE PUBLIC. EXPLORERS HAVE TO USE AUTHORISATIONS FROM THE

RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT)

2011

 

3D ELEPHANT

THE LIVING DESCENDANTS: ASIAN ELEPHANT 3D RECONSTRUCTION FROM ORIGINAL CT-SCANS,

FROM THE INSTITUTE OF ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH, BERLIN

SCANNED READY-MADE, 2011

 

 

THE LIVING DESCENDANTS: EXTRACTED ASIAN ELEPHANT VOCAL TRACT

LIVING READY-MADE, 2011

 

IN MARCH 2011 I MET MARTIN BIRCHALL,

WHO DID THE FIRST LARYNX TRANSPLANT IN CALIFORNIA ABOUT A YEAR AGO.

 

JARKOVSCAN

PREHISTORIC READY-MADE,

JARKOV

IMAGE COURTESY: BERNARD BUIGUES

 

MAMMOTHSKULL

MAMMOTH IMPERATOR, SKULL

 

FROZEN MAMMOTHS ARE FOUND IN THE SIBERIAN PERMAFROST

IN JANUARY 2011 I MET BERNARD BUIGUES, FRENCH EXPLORER, WHO DISCOVERED JARKOV, AND LYUBA- 10 000 YEAR OLD MAMMOTHS.

IMAGE COURTESY: BERNARD BUIGUES