Apr 21, 2019
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by neil faber & michael dumontier
from the last billboard project by john rubin
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John Rubin Accepting 2008 Peabody Award for “Ape Genius”
Ape Genius has the requisite beauty of good nature documentaries, but it has much more: philosophical questions explored through multiple scientific techniques and critically examined by filmmaker John Rubin. The large question posed here is: what is it, intrinsically, to be human? The scientific discoveries made clear here show us that apes indeed have creative intellect, language and problem-solving skills. The difference between us and them, as revealed in a series of revelatory experiments, is that humans explicitly teach each other, so that each generation builds on the last. Apes do not.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/ape-genius
Co-founded by artists John Rubin and Dawn Weleski, Conflict Kitchen is a take out style restaurant in Pittsburgh that only serves cuisine from countries with which the US is in conflict, rotating identities every 6 months in relation to current geopolitical events. The food is wrapped in beautifully designed paper packaging printed with statements on topics ranging from food to religion, work, and politics.
Operating seven days a week in the city center, Conflict Kitchen reformats the preexisting social relations of food and economic exchange to engage the general public in discussions about countries, cultures, and people that they might know little about outside of the polarizing rhetoric of U.S. politics and the narrow lens of media headlines.
http://conflictkitchen.org/about/
HERETHERE, the art assignment
Since I don't actually have any neighbors, I shot this in a friends house instead. Julia's home is full of light and books and cats, and was a lovely spot to film in. I'm not excellent at video, so it was nice to only have to film a small bit!