The Turning Behavior
2017
HD Video with stereo sound in headphones.
Installation inside electrical cabinet.
8 min.
The term Turning Behavior derived from cognitive science explaining the circle-path that land mammals such as cats and dogs does to scan off their environment before laying down to rest. Archive footage further explains the phenomena and display conditions of this behavior among humans.
Recycled footage
Liocarcinus marmoreus 2.jpg, 3 oktober 2005, © Hans Hillewaert
Influence of Body Morphology on Turning Behaviour in Carnivores. D. Eilam, Journal of Motor Behaviour, Volume 26, no 1, March 1994.
Journal of Experiamnetal psychology
The Journals Of Gernotology, Series a, D. Cundall and J Shardo, Volume 39, Issue 5, 1 October 1999.
Home video, June, 1990.
Youtube clips
Multiple Suicides, Golden Gate Bridge, June 15, 2014
Red Road flats demolition, Sunday '11/10/2015, 3:20p
Additional voices
Christopher Carroll
Autumn Knight
Dana Lok
Michelle Mantua
Alejandro Aldea
Eduardo Costa
Locations
Varios locations between Tsukuba and Kyoto, Japan, 2017
South Carolina, US, 2013
Thanks to
Shikimori Hidegoro stable in Ryugasaki, Sacco Fujishima, Asumi Sato, Reiko Fujieda, Yuta Sugihara.
Made with support from
Sasakawa Foundation
Back to Me, Tomteboda Postterminal, Stockholm, 2017
Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger