The Opera of Prehistoric Creatures on Soundcloud (Live Recording in the Politique Fiction exhibition): https://soundcloud.com/tar-magazine/the-opera-by-marguerite-humeau 'ACT III / The Opera: Installation & Performance' is the third chapter of 'Proposal for resuscitating prehistoric creatures'. The opera is performed by three creatures vocal tracts and their synthetic vibrating vocal cords: a Mammoth Imperator, an Entelodont aka "Terminator Pig" and an Ambulocetus aka "Walking Whale". The opera was especially commissioned by curator Alexandra Midal and first performed during the Politique Fiction exhibition in Saint-Etienne (May 2012 – January 2013). 'Proposal for resuscitating prehistoric creatures' is an opera which sets up the rebirth of cloned creatures, their wandering and their sound epic. They are seeking to evolve in our contemporary era. The designer, who became the heroine of a quasi-mystic epic journey, aims at resuscitating the sound of prehistoric creatures by reconstructing their vocal tract. This is problematic from the scientific point of view: since the vocal tract is made of soft tissue, it does not fossilise. The only things that have been preserved through time are the surrounding bones. The inner parts have to be redesigned. For more than a year Marguerite Humeau has been discussing with palaeontologists, zoologists, veterinarians, engineers, explorers, surgeons, ear and throat specialists, and radiologists. Humeau had to overcome the difficulty of telling history, and prehistory; and also to create a work from non-existent, inaccessible, or lost data. Design, fiction, science, speculations and phantasms serve the project ambition. Advices from experts as well as predictions are used to craft the roars of the new creatures. The epic, as real as fantasised, gives birth to three semi-real roaring creatures: a Mammoth Imperator (-4,5 MYA), an Entelodont aka Terminator Pig (-25 MYA), and an Ambulocetus "Walking whale" (-50MYA). COLLABORATORS 'The Opera of Prehistoric Creatures – Lucy' is part of the MoMA, New York permanent collection. Designer: Marguerite Humeau Artificial Intelligence: Association Phonotonic, Julien Bloit Sound Design Collaborator: Charles Goyard 3D Modelling: Hong Yeul Eom, Clifford Sage, Ben Penna Video: Ben Penna Metal work: One little girl and a can of gas Special thanks: James Auger