{"id":2648,"date":"2018-07-12T15:54:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T15:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2018-09-13T09:55:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T09:55:57","slug":"ask-the-apes-at-turner-contemporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2018\/07\/12\/ask-the-apes-at-turner-contemporary\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask The Apes at Turner Contemporary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2649\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2018\/07\/Ask-The-Apes-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2018\/07\/Ask-The-Apes-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2018\/07\/Ask-The-Apes.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Artists Marcus Coates and Feral Practice will be joined by\u00a0Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/staff-profiles\/profiles\/biological-anthropology\/academic-staff\/newton-fisher_nicholas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas Newton-Fisher<\/a>, primate behavioural ecologist and expert in wild chimpanzee behaviour, and Volker Sommer, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of London, whose research focuses on primates&#8217; social and sexual behaviour, cognition and rituals. The event takes place at the Turner Contemporary in Margate on <strong>Saturday 21st July<\/strong> at <strong>14:30<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is an opportunity to ask the panellists a question about your life or human society. It can be a personal concern, or a broader social, political issue. You are welcome to submit your question to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/feralpractice.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=dabcc39856389ba3293d1c52e&amp;id=341891d2f6&amp;e=61ef25d210\">www.askthewild.net<\/a>\u00a0or bring it with you on the day.<\/p>\n<p>The panellists will answer the audience&#8217;s questions through their specialist knowledge of our primate cousins and bring fresh perspectives to our human concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Subverting a \u2018Gardeners&#8217; Question Time\u2019 format,\u00a0<em>Ask the Apes<\/em>\u00a0draws on and celebrates the vast resource of knowledge that apes, and the humans that study them, have accumulated.<\/p>\n<p>This event is part of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.askthewild.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ask the Wild<\/em><\/a>, a project by British artists Marcus Coates and Feral Practice.<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Ask the Wild<\/em>\u00a0offers fresh perspectives on personal, social, and political issues in human society, by bringing the expert knowledge of the natural history\u00a0disciplines to bear on everyday human problems and dilemmas.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are \u00a310 \/ \u00a36 concessions. Book via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/feralpractice.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=dabcc39856389ba3293d1c52e&amp;id=196f030e17&amp;e=61ef25d210\">Turner Contemporary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/feralpractice.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=dabcc39856389ba3293d1c52e&amp;id=c20e575246&amp;e=61ef25d210\">@feralpractice<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/feralpractice.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=dabcc39856389ba3293d1c52e&amp;id=59198a5957&amp;e=61ef25d210\">@askthewild<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Manu Palomeque.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists Marcus Coates and Feral Practice will be joined by\u00a0Dr Nicholas Newton-Fisher, primate behavioural ecologist and expert in wild chimpanzee behaviour, and Volker Sommer, Professor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2018\/07\/12\/ask-the-apes-at-turner-contemporary\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":3136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6598,124,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}