Australian Video Art Archive

Lauren Berkowitz

 

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

00:02:03 1998

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters was exhibited originally at Canberra Contemporary Art Space (Spiderbox) in collaboration with another video by Rozalind Drummond. Lauren Berkowitz explores through the metaphor of aquarium and zoo, notions of containing menace. The video imagery plays with the duality of attraction and repulsion, our fears and anxieties, and our need to control and tame nature: that is natural and human.

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