Bugs & Beasts Before the Law (2019)
Film, Video, Installation
'Bugs and Beasts before the Law' is an experimental film that explores the medieval practice of putting animals on trial. This history of colonial law-making forged political and sometimes profane relationships between humans and animals. Mitchell & Bamboat essayistic work reimagines common perceptions of legal history and, in doing so, produces a world where past and present, fiction and non-fiction, human and animal fuse.
image credit: Henry Art Gallery, film installation. Photo: Jueqian Fang, 2021
Henry Art Gallery, film installation. Photo: Jueqian Fang, 2021
Henry Art Gallery, series of photocopy transfers, wall drawings, wallpaper. Photo: Jueqian Fang, 2021
Henry Art Gallery, series of photocopy transfers, wall drawings. Photo: Jueqian Fang, 2021
Henry Art Gallery, series of photocopy transfers. Photo: Jueqian Fang, 2021
Mercer Union, Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid, 2019
Mercer Union, Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid, 2019
Bugs & Beasts Before the Law, Appendix A-L is a complementary publication to the experimental essay film Bugs & Beasts Before the Law (2019) by Bambitchell, the artist collaboration of Sharlene Bamboat and Alexis Kyle Mitchell. It is published on the occasion of the artists’ solo exhibition at the Henry, February 20 to May 9, 2021.