Kuang-Yi Ku
  • About
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    • Atlas of Queer Anatomy
    • Making Love in the Zoo
    • Bat Feast Lab - Performance
    • Gods of Water
    • Center for Plant Immigrant Integration
    • Calico Human
    • Queer Termite Project
    • Free the Male Nipple
    • Grandmom Mom - Performance
    • Grandmom Mom
    • Future Museum of Holy Pig
    • Perverted Norm, Normal Pervert
    • New Ultimate Imperial Feast
    • Delayed Youth
    • Millennium Ginseng Project - Time Machine Farm
    • Millennium Ginseng Project - Extreme Greenhouse
    • Millennium Ginseng Project - Moon Ginseng
    • Tarot of Pulse
    • Tiger Penis Project
    • The Cunnilingus/Anilingus Modification Project
    • Dolphin Eroticarium
    • Pet's Pettings
    • The Fellatio Modification Project - Male Masturbation Cup Mouth
    • The Fellatio Modification Project - Bird Beak Clone
    • Organic Mimicry of Prosthesis
    • My Garden
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Making Love in the Zoo


"Making Love in the Zoo" explores stories of sexuality in the environment of captivity of the Zoological garden. The zoo is a place of nostalgia and wonder, and reflects our preconceived ideas about nature, but what do stories of sexuality from the perspective of the zoo’s residents tell us about our own sexuality? Is there such a thing as sexual freedom for the caged? To what extent is a ‘forced marriage’ allowed and how do you decide for insemination?

For this publication Kuang-Yi Ku and Thijs de Zeeuw started by researching the role of sex and reproduction in the zoo. But, as it is with sex, they couldn’t stop fantasizing, and so this publication is not just a presentation of their research but also contains speculative designs as well. The stories you find are the result of conversations with the zoo, its keepers and researchers, and discussions between Kuang-Yi and Thijs. They discuss their work and question the role of sex in a Zoo of The Future…

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Credits:

​Text: Kuang-Yi Ku, Thijs de Zeeuw, Anne-Florence Neveu (Panda)

Illustration: Kuang-Yi Ku, Thijs de Zeeuw, Kyungmi Lee
Proofread: Ryan White
Design: Jhen Chen
Publisher Limestone Books

Supported by Creative Industries Fund NL​

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