Saturday, November 23, 2013

Jakarta's monkey street performers, Perttu Saksa, Jakarta Animal Aid Network, There are an estimated 350 macaque monkeys in Jakarta working as street performers



http://jakartaanimalaid.com



www.perttusaksa.com/works/a-kind-of-you-2013/

A Kind of You (2013)

"A Kind of You" is a documentary work of an uncanny asian tradition, where monkeys are trained and dressed to act humanlike in order to ask money from the bypassers. Modern city culture has turned the old tradition in to eerie and haunting act of cruel street theatre where animals become something else, never able to reach our expectations.