Up at the Esplanade's Jendela Hall were two other M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2010 Gallery showcases - The Institute of Critical Zoologists (ICZ)'s "A Guide to the Common Flora and Fauna of the World" and Htein Lin's "The Scale of Justice".
A Guide to the Common Flora and Fauna of the World takes its inspiration from a real-life smuggling case where 15 endangered geckos were concealed in hallowed-out books and transported out of Australia only to be intercepted by the country's customs.
The audiences were introduced to the world of wildlife trafficking through ingenious pieces of art. Firstly by a series of photographs; cockatoo and macaw eggs, golden star tortoises, a parakeet... snakes. But all you see is a t-shirt with things bulging from pockets, rolled up socks, a cardboard box, etc.
On another wall hang traces; proof of smuggling activities consiting of a bunch of postal receipts for books, various stamps from Indonesia, China, US, Malaysia, etc.
It was brilliant how the images themselves are, in a way, smuggled past the viewer and animals that are supposedly endangered slip through the fingers of the gallery viewer-as-hunter or even through the camera’s lenses.
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M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2010 - Last Meals
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2010 - The Scale of Justice
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