A performance talk about tigers and humans.
Triggered by a dialogue with the World Wildlife Fund regarding ‘adoption’, I became curious about our relationship with rescuing wildlife at this unique point of environmental change, about the symbology and mythology surrounding the bewilderingly powerful tiger, this 'charismatic megafauna'. 'When I was a kid I lived on a farm not far from Longleat Safari Park in Somerset. And whenever a calf died, my Dad would put it in the back of the Landrover and drive it over to Longleat to feed to the lions and tigers'.
This devised performance looks closely at our relations with tigers, the wild, our desire to rescue and ‘adopt’, our anthropomorphic corporate behaviour, our love.'An attempt to cope with the possible extinction of the tiger.
Put a tiger in your tank, in your potency pill.
Adopt one, get a certificate.
I love the tiger and the tiger would still eat me, yes.
And it would eat David Attenborough, too'.
Performed at Made In Somerset (Artists Showcase), Dartington College of Arts, Georgia State University Atlanta, Exeter Phoenix, Fareham Library Dads 'n Lads Group, The Phoenix Project in Glastonbury, Anti-Static Festival at the Brewhouse Taunton, Desire Lines Arts and Ecology Conference at DCA, Devon, Arts Depot London, Tobacco Factory at the Bristol Mayfest and Buckland Dinham near Frome. The project archive is here.
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