Twelve Hours in the Life of a Fox with Antoine Bertin. On the 31st July 2014, artist Antoine Bertin attached a recording collar of his own making to a fox. With the help of the Harper Wildlife Rescue he let Ollie go at 6pm not too far from London, following his movements thanks to the GPS in his collar. The recorder automatically dropped off his neck the next morning, to be retrieved a few hours later by following the location data collected. The project was developed with Forestry Commission England and Sound and Music as part of the Embedded residency programme.
Antoine Bertin is an artist who listens his way around the boundaries between documentary and fiction, the poetic and the political, the living and the artificial. His work consists of audio narratives combining elements of broadcast, walk, sculpture and publication. Weaving technology together with storytelling, he is curious about our relationship with the environment, the 'unreachable' and the idea of progress. Born in 1985, trained as a sound engineer at ENS Louis Lumière and graduating with an MA in Sound Art from London College of Communication, Antoine currently works in London, Paris and Brussels. For more information visit www.studioantoinebertin.com and vimeo.com/115117308.