NOTE

from , Installed text, performers, sound, haze, The Vaults, Waterloo, London UK, commissioned by Twentieth Century Fox, 1 - 4 September 2014. was commissioned by Twentieth Century Fox to coincide with the release of the eighth Planet of the Apes film: (director, Matt Reeves, Twentieth Century Fox, 2014). 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 by the artist under Waterloo Station examining the conditions for war or peace, for happy co-existence or mutual annihilation. The five underground rooms of each explored an aspect of human nature. 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. What does an examination of the human in crisis tell us about the kind of animal we really are? 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.