Marguerite Humeau, Tony, A female engineered with despair, 2016.
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Titre

Tony, A female engineered with despair

Date
2016

Dimensions
173 × 97 × 133 cm (Including metal stand) 68 1/8 × 38 1/4 × 52 3/8 in. 194 × 160 × 290 cm (Including plinth and bench) 76 3/8 × 63 × 114 1/8 in.

Matériau

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

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Titre

Tony, A female engineered with despair

Date
2016

Dimensions
173 × 97 × 133 cm (Including metal stand) 68 1/8 × 38 1/4 × 52 3/8 in. 194 × 160 × 290 cm (Including plinth and bench) 76 3/8 × 63 × 114 1/8 in.

Matériau

Polyurethane foam, white paint, acrylic parts, nylon, depressant hormones 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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Sound

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