description Es Devlin: Please Feed the Lions Overview
Es Devlin’s Please Feed the Lions is a large-scale installation art piece featuring a monumental lion sculpture. The work reacts to audience sound, shifting colors and triggering roars through collective participation. This interactive artwork creates an immersive experience encouraging shared engagement and evoking primal responses. It's designed for viewers interested in contemporary digital art, performance, and public space interventions.
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Where was Es Devlin’s Please Feed the Lions shown?
Please Feed the Lions was installed in Trafalgar Square in London in 2018 as part of the Fourth Plinth programme. The work used a monumental lion form to connect public art with audience participation.
How did Please Feed the Lions respond to visitors?
The lion used microphones and software to respond to collective audience sound, producing changing light and roaring effects. It was designed as an interactive public artwork rather than a static sculpture.
Who created Please Feed the Lions?
The installation was created by British artist and stage designer Es Devlin. Her wider practice includes large-scale sculpture, theatre design, concerts, and public installations.
Was the lion sculpture fed with real food?
No. The title is a playful reference to the audience’s voices and participation, not an instruction to feed an animal. Visitors contributed sound that was processed into the installation’s responses.
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