MINISTRY OF PLANTS&ANIMALS - INTERNAL AFFAIRS

The idea is to represent animals and plants inside the parliament. Animals and plants are categorised as of minor importance according to the Hierarchy given in the text:

from Animacies: Humans: adult > nonadult; male/MASC gender > female/FEM gender; free > enslaved; able-bodied > disabled; linguistically intact > prelinguistic/linguistically impaired; familiar (kin/named) > unfamiliar (nonkin/unnamed); proximate (1p & 2p pronouns) > remote (3p pronouns). Animals: higher/larger animals > lower/smaller animals > insects; whole animal > body part; Inanimates: motile/active > nonmotile/nonactive; natural > manmade; count > mass; Incorporeals: abstract concepts, natural forces, states of affairs, states of being, emotions, qualities, activities, events, time periods, institutions, re�gions, diverse intellectual objects.

Parliaments are usually a place where everything should be represented, according to the ideal of democracy. Unfortunately, animals and plants are not able to talk for themselves so human representatives are usually present in parliaments, but most of the time human's needs overcome animals and plants ones. This time, we would like to give them a voice, both raising real issues but also literally giving them their own voice, their own chance to be present in the space. Therefore, some pieces will discuss well-known issues related to extinction and climate change, some others will simply express the sound of animals through a popular and mainstream lens.

We decided to give voice to the plants and animals in danger of extinction, and thought about if they could speak how would they do it. That's why we distorted our voices, changing the pitch and speed. And made short jingles and interludes that would work on this style.

THE SEATS (documentation)

The Cat - purring - the voice of a cat - [1]

The Musical Kittens - Cory Arcangel collection of cats playing the piano - [2]

Cicadas - noises - typical sound of the nature that people can hear everywhere when the temperature is mild [3]

Mr Broccoli - Piers and Susanna's Awkward Interview With Climate Change Activist Mr Broccoli - climage change personification of a piece of broccoli that wants to move to a plant-food system - [4]

The Lion King - The Lion King Circle of Life played at the Musical Awards Gala 2018 - popular well-known song played in a mainstream event talking about the Circle of Life, important topic for animals [5]

Peppa Pig - Peppa Pig Learns Healthy Habits - Peppa Pig taking about vegetables - an animal talking about plants, what else? - [6]

Minister of Animals and Plants - Animals Species made extinct by human activities - list of 116 species in extinction - the speed of the piece has been edited because the list is long and needs to be underlined - [recorded audio - text from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Species_made_extinct_by_human_activities]

The Boxer Dog - singing Hallelujah - how dogs interact with human's means [to be seated next to species minister] - [7]

jingles ?