XENOPETS
-Zhu Bajie, Pig-Man/Man-Pig, 2019
The performance is a reflection on the exceptional relationship between the human species and their natural environment. The colonialist, capitalist view of the world as resource resulted in unprecedented consequences for the whole planet.
Xenopets explores these ideals through animal/human relations, representing the wilful ignorance of mankind in order to continue using and abusing human and other than human alike.
Xenopets is the fictional biomedical company advocating xenotransplantation (the transplantation of organs between different species), using the known marketing strategies of the 20th and 21th century. Touching on issues of animal rights, bodypolitics and class-politics.
