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Title

Vronski and Deborah (Lovers), Two elephants engineered to romantically fall in love with each other

Date
2016

Dimensions
301.9 × 188.7 × 200.7 cm (Including stand) 118 7/8 × 74 1/4 × 79 in.

Material

Polyurethane foam, white paint, acrylic parts, silicone, nylon, 3 glass hormones containers, testosterone, oestrogen, adrenaline, dopamine, oxytocin, vasopressin, water pumps, water, powder-coated metal stand, sound

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Title

Vronski and Deborah (Lovers), Two elephants engineered to romantically fall in love with each other

Date
2016

Dimensions
301.9 × 188.7 × 200.7 cm (Including stand) 118 7/8 × 74 1/4 × 79 in.

Material

Polyurethane foam, white paint, acrylic parts, silicone, nylon, 3 glass hormones containers, testosterone, oestrogen, adrenaline, dopamine, oxytocin, vasopressin, water pumps, water, 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