Emily Ward Bivens

Bobbie’s Chia Surveillance Rabbit is a large clay and dirt sculpture with wireless surveillance cameras used as eyes. The cameras send footage to monitors placed in the corners of the gallery. The audience is invited to eat and water tufts of wheatgrass planted down the back of the piece. As the viewers see themselves on the monitors they alter their behavior. The wheatgrass grows during the exhibition from spiky to full to floppy, changing the perceived personality of the rabbit.