Rachel Mayeri

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• The Human Delta
  

  A delta is a place where a river meets another body of water. A river carries sediment that leaves the triangular pattern where the two bodies of water intersperse. Human bodies are nutrient-rich, water and sediment transportation systems. The Human Delta occurs at the toilet, an effluence of millions of gallons of sediment-rich water, which […]

• Baboon Cinema
  

  [Excerpt from entry for the Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality book to be published in fall 2011] The reaction to the video was startling. 743 and 825 were there with me setting up, and they immediately focused on the monitor when the program began. The remaining twenty members of the troop, noticing their interest, grouped behind […]

• Primate Cinema: Apes as Family
  

  Primate Cinema: Apes as Family is an 11 minute single channel film and a  two channel video installation. The film is an original movie I  made expressly for chimpanzees at the Edinburgh Zoo. A primate drama, like many made for human audiences, the film follows a young female as she befriends a wild group of […]

• Critters Speak
  

  CRITTERS SPEAK is an environmental art and education project created by Rachel Mayeri for Brandon Ballengée and his portable museum of Gulf of Mexico biodiversity, CRUDE LIFE. In June 2017, Rachel joined Brandon in South Louisiana and interviewed a broad range of people to assess environmental recovery seven years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon, the largest […]

• Primate Cinema: How to Act Like an Animal Workshop
  

  In May 2008, a number of people in the Los Angeles area of California, not far from Hollywood, participated in a three-week workshop that took place in an art gallery called TELIC Arts Exchange. They signed up through The Public School, an extra-institutional learning forum run by TELIC, which enables people to post classes they […]