Marguerite Humeau, Félicie, A female engineered to be selfdestructive – it gets drunk with ethanol that comes from a masala fruit, 2016.
Marguerite Humeau, Félicie, A female engineered to be selfdestructive – it gets drunk with ethanol that comes from a masala fruit, 2016.
Marguerite Humeau, Félicie, A female engineered to be selfdestructive – it gets drunk with ethanol that comes from a masala fruit, 2016.
Marguerite Humeau, Félicie, A female engineered to be selfdestructive – it gets drunk with ethanol that comes from a masala fruit, 2016.
Title

Félicie, A female engineered to be self destructive – it gets drunk with ethanol that comes from a masala fruit

Date
2016

Dimensions
209.5 × 82.3 × 332.1 cm (Including stand) 82 1/2 × 32 3/8 × 130 3/4 in. 237 × 140 × 530 cm (Including plinth and bench) 93 1/4 × 55 1/8 × 208 5/8 in.

Material

Polystyrene, white paint, acrylic parts, latex, silicone, glass artificial masala fruit, ethanol, water pumps, water, nylon, powder-coated metal stand, sound

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Title

Félicie, A female engineered to be self destructive – it gets drunk with ethanol that comes from a masala fruit

Date
2016

Dimensions
209.5 × 82.3 × 332.1 cm (Including stand) 82 1/2 × 32 3/8 × 130 3/4 in. 237 × 140 × 530 cm (Including plinth and bench) 93 1/4 × 55 1/8 × 208 5/8 in.

Material

Polystyrene, white paint, acrylic parts, latex, silicone, glass artificial masala fruit, ethanol, water pumps, water, nylon, powder-coated metal stand, sound

(Sound)

The death throes of a matriarch elephant trigger an evolving chorus of voices around her, moving through sadness, melancholy, nostalgia, joy, love and amazement - as if her passage towards death were awakening new forms of emotion, language and consciousness in the group.

00 : 00 The Death of Echo, 2016 00 : 00

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Credits

Sound

Voice synthesis, sound design, orchestration: Pierre Lanchantin (Machine Intelligence Laboratory, University of Cambridge); Voices: Gideon Wagner and Ghizela Rowe