Jungle Fluids
Channel: Digital Naturalism Laboratories
Date: 2013-09-22

Jungle Fluids is a video installation documenting a performance which exists between the traditionally divided fields of science and art. This  artifact from my PhD research investigates the value of expressive media for opening new routes of experiential scientific investigation. 

I challenged my collaborator, the myrmecologist, Peter Marting, to adapt a famous work of performance art to his research field site in the jungle of Panama. He selected Alan Kaprow's piece, Fluids, where kaprow built simple ice sculptures throughout LA. This new performance piece revealed novel behaviors in his research subjects while also building emotional connections through participation and aesthetics.