Morrison & Friends

Morrison & Friends

2021

4K video | Stereo audio | Duration: 26:50

Documentary videoart piece Morrison & Friends depicts interspecies communications between humans and an alpaca.

Morrison the alpaca is a celebrity who has appeared on Finnish TV shows such as the Dudesons and Fairytale weddings. Morrison also works with animal-assisted activities and alpaca therapy, visiting nursing homes with his trainer Tarja Jokinen. As a therapy animal, Morrison is used to interacting with people and he is not intimidated by people working behind cameras. This made it possible to create an environment in the studio where the participants seemingly simply needed to be present. Having all these beings spending time together was the basis for my documentary videoart work Morrison & Friends.

We gain new perspectives into alternative realities, methods of communication and knowledge by refocusing and interacting with another species whose senses work differently from ours and who, through those senses, accesses the world in a different way than we do. Instead of space, alien intelligence can be found right here.