Media: Iron Bars (300×250 cm) / CC Camera / Monitor / Amplifier & Hidden Microphone / Lighting / Polaroid Camera

Exhibition: September 1, 2000 - October 5, 2000

Format of Performance

-  Living in the installation during the exhibition

-  Communicating with visitors who came to the installation

-  Taking Polaroid pictures them through the bars to recognize their confinement

Description

What is a real or truth in the Earth? Also, who is confined or free in a zoo?  I sometimes can not assure our common belief.  When I visited a zoo in my  elementary school days, I watch a chimpanzee through the iron bars.  At the same  time, I imagined that nobody is confined, or nobody is free during the eye contact  with the animal in front of the bars.

In my installation, Zoological Garden 1, when visitors see me first through the bars,  the people will think that I am confined in the cage.  The audiences, however, will  find the ironical situation that they also are confined with watching the moniter  showing confined themselves at the same time. Finally, I take a Polaroid Picture  them with the bars to call away their prejudice about the common belief.