Marguerite Humeau, Pierre, An elephant engineered to be happy, 2016.
Marguerite Humeau, Pierre, An elephant engineered to be happy, 2016.
Title

Pierre, An elephant engineered to be happy

Date
2016

Dimensions
213 × 152 × 185 cm (Including metal stand) 83 7/8 × 59 7/8 × 72 7/8 in 238 × 240 × 225 cm (Including plinth and bench) 93 3/4 × 94 1/2 × 88 5/8 in

Material

Polyurethane foam, white paint, acrylic parts, nylon, endorphin powder, powder-coated metal stand, sound

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Title

Pierre, An elephant engineered to be happy

Date
2016

Dimensions
213 × 152 × 185 cm (Including metal stand) 83 7/8 × 59 7/8 × 72 7/8 in 238 × 240 × 225 cm (Including plinth and bench) 93 3/4 × 94 1/2 × 88 5/8 in

Material

Polyurethane foam, white paint, acrylic parts, nylon, endorphin powder, 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