Los Angeles-based artist, Diana Thater presented The best animals, with combined elements filmed and taped at three locations. Thater's evocative use of animals contrasted nature with un-natural conditions and raised issues of nature versus culture. Employing modern technologies -- film, video monitors and video projection -- Thater addressed and challenged traditional precepts of art history and our basic assumptions about perception. Instead of the singular, static object usually presented as "art," she created a work composed of several environments that took different forms at each venue at which they were exhibited.
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