Lenore Malen: I Am The Animal

January 19 to April 1, 2012
Koppelman Gallery

Lenore Malen's immersive three-channel video and audio environment, I Am The Animal, simulates the spatial and temporal flow of the beehive into the landscape and re-imagines the hive as human culture.

Original footage is intercut with archival and found footage, beginning in a documentary fashion then moving into imagery alluding to genetics and robotics.

The installation and an accompanying artist's book are both a philosophical inquiry into the way humans anthropomorphize non-human animals and a plea against the industrialized treatment of them.
 

Listen to our guided tour stops here:

STOP 12: Introduction to Lenore Malen: I Am the Animal, Amy I. Schlegel, exhibition curator

STOP 13: Artist Lenore Malen on her installation I Am The Animal