Don’t bring the children to
this adults-only experience at Melbourne Zoo. Seriously, don’t. I, Animal is an irresistible piece of interactive
performance art, utilising patrons and zoo creatures as cast, and the environs
of Melbourne Zoo as stage and set.
Following the success of I Am Not An Animal (Ruby Award for
Innovation 2012), Adelaide company, ‘The Border Project’, were commissioned by Zoos Victoria to create
what is a unique interactive experience.
Here’s how it works. On
arrival patrons are armed with a personal device, the ‘Zoe’ designed by Arts
Processors, the team behind the ‘O’ device at the MONA Gallery in Hobart. After
a series of introductory questions outside the main entrance, you are divided
into four groups are led on a separate themed experiences.
I was allocated to the
group exploring notions of life, death, survival and extinction. Its
confrontation is surprising, warm and sensitive, and I was told later that it
is the most affecting of the groups, particularly for those who’ve recently
experienced the death of a loved one. Even so, there are laughs.
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