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![]() Brandon Ballengée, Species Reclamation, Detail of Hymenochirus Colony, 2000 |
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Brandon Ballengée Species Reclamation 1999-Ongoing. Photographed at Exit Art in October 2000. Mixed media installation including: 30 live African frog specimens (representative of six generations of genetic colonies), digital prints (documenting the last twenty-four months of the breeding-project), and laptop computer. 10 feet by 25 feet by 8 feet. In this project I am selectively breeding mixed Hymenochirus species frogs with the intention of surfacing traits of Hymenochirus curtipes, believed to be a threatened or perhaps already extinct species. Hymenochirus family frogs originate in the Congo region of Africa. Overall biodiversity in the Congo is threatened by 'slash and burn' clearing of forests and by increased economic demand for logging. Political chaos and civil turmoil in the newly established Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire, has severely retarded biological studies. Data available on the remaining amphibian species in the Congo is inconclusive.
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