Traum Stipendium, Energie AG mit OK Kultur Quartier, Linz. Summer 2015.
An odyssey of sorts.
The proposal was as the title suggests, to go to Africa and have dinner with a chimpanzee.
The idea was that Bunn felt totally powerless to do anything about the terrifying shape of the world, and thought that the most useless gesture he could perform would be to have dinner with a chimpanzee – our closest living relative in the animal kingdom, and indeed an endangered one to boot. Because art is supposed to be useless, no?
Somehow, happily, by the end of filming, the adventure had turned into something much more positive.
Having received a generous stipendium, Bunn set off for the heart of Africa with a rucksack full of potent symbols – from bread made in the shape of the Venus von Willendorf to salt hewn by druids from the mines of Hallstatt:
From duck feathers and radio controlled helicopters, ready-made supermarket breadcrumbs to wind blown sand from the Sahara, from slinky blue lycra jumpsuits to Union Jack underpants…
What definitely resulted was:
a quasi-voodoo sculptural display of the objects from the rucksack,
And, tucked away behind this potently shonky effigy, a feature length movie, delivered in bite-sized chunks on an interactive menu card, set within a restaurant-like space.
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