Deke Weaver - The Unreliable Bestiary Project
Deke Weaver talks about his funny/sad/epic project, The Unreliable Bestiary - an ark of stories about animals and our relationships with them.
Deke Weaver is a writer-performer and media artist. Experimental theater, film/video, dance, and solo performance venues have presented Weaver's interdisciplinary performances and videos in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Russia, Europe and the United States. A resident at Yaddo, HERE, a two-time fellow at Ucross, a four-time fellow at the MacDowell Colony, a three-time recipient of NEA regional film/video grants, and a 2009 Creative Capital grantee, he also contributes film and video to dance and theater works in the U.S. and abroad. He is currently an assistant professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Website: http://unreliablebestiary.org/.
This talk was recorded at TEDxUIUC 2011 (February 19, 2011).