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Idiocy Walks With Wisdom, 2014
2014
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It Ends Here

Installed text, performers, haze, drones
Commissioned by 20th Century Fox
The Vaults, Waterloo London UK
10-12 July 2014
It Ends Here
was commissioned by Twentieth Century Fox to coincide with the release of the eighth Planet of the Apes film,
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
(director, Matt Reeves, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 2014).

Planete des Singes
by French novelist, Pierre Boulle, tells a story of power inversion, ape supremacy, and human servitude. What does his examination of the human in crisis tell us about the kind of animal we really are?

Five environments were installed under London's Waterloo Station examining the conditions for war or peace, for happy co-existence or mutual annihilation.
Room plan from exhibition guide, 2014.
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Idiocy Walks With Wisdom
suggests what seems like madness may be sanity, and what seems reckless may be wise. Idiocy and wisdom may appear similar as identical twins, and like identical twins, be impossible at times to tell apart.

Without doubt we are a warring and violent species, but we are also redeemed by something else - by our capacity (weak though it is) to see beyond immediate hurts and imagine an alternative to retaliation, by our attempts to live humanely in an over-crowded and tension-filled world.