While artist-in-residence on the Galápagos Islands, Coates approached the family-run local television station, Channel 9 TV Galápagos. He offered to make a short news report for them as an outsider. His report was broadcast as a news item, appearing between coverage of a beauty contest and the football results. Dressed in his hand-made cardboard costume, Coates reports on the human society (population approx. 30,000) from the perspective of a blue-footed booby, an iconic bird of the Galápagos. Coates had asked research scientists working on the island what they would report about the human situation if they were a visiting bird. Much of the report is informed by their responses.jects/48-human-report
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