Serpentine Galleries
Claire Filmon performs Simone Forti's Sleep Walkers/Zoo Mantras
Dancer Claire Filmon performs Simone Forti's choreography, Sleep Walkers/Zoo Mantras as part of the Serpentine Galleries Symposium: The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, Part 1: Language.
Artists, dancers, writers and scientists gathered at the London Zoo to consider animal, human and artificial consciousness, language, and interspecies communication. See below for participants. Participants include writer Ted Chiang, artist Michela de Mattei; dancer Claire Filmon (performing Simone Forti); artist Rasmus Nielsen; dolphin cognition researcher Diana Reiss, as well as a remote participation by Internet pioneer Vint Cerf and a screening of The Great Silence by Allora & Calzadilla (in collaboration with Ted Chiang).
