Absurdist Animals is a costume heavy performance art piece influenced by dada and surrealism. The costumes reflect different animals found in nature distorted to fit a human frame and serve as functional paintbrushes. These videos are inspired by the idea of surrealist automatism; removing the conscious part of the artistic process to reveal animalistic base desires/ the subconscious. It is also influenced by the dada idea of chance, as interactions in nature are all a chance of whether you live/die; you hunt your prey or you are hunted. Through the marriage of chance and subconscious movement I aim to imitate wild animal behavior.
