zoo for the species

zoo for the species	2003	sound and walking project with sound installation	spatial project
		Artwork, image and photography © Perdita Phillips	to walk

This work connects animal emotions with walking the space of Perth as part of the this walking thing theme of National Review of Live Art at the abandoned Midland Railway Workshops in 2003. Graffiti in the workshop often related to animals. What interested the artist iwas recalling some of the many anecdotes about animal emotions as a (spoken) undercurrent in the piece.

Bellvue chemical contamination

Perth Airport (en route from Cloverdale)

7 walks were undertaken starting at places representing 7 basic emotions thought to be experienced by animals. These included Joy Street, Dianella, the Fury Oil Company, Bayswater, Albrecht Fear Real Estate, Swanbourne and Love Street, Cloverdale.

Lone Pine Memorial Park walk.

Dianella (from grief)

Kangaroo Paw (from Joy)

from Albrecht Fear Real Estate Agency

under the fence at the back of the workshops

It was presented at Midland along the outside of the 100 metre long workshop which viewers walked along to hear the piece (a second showing saw it being reconfigured for the Moores Building in Fremantle).

abandoned interior (research documentation) at the Midland railway workshops.

Each of the lights along the bays of the Workshop marks one of the seven external speaker