A symposium with talks by artist Rachel Mayeri and comparative psychologist Sarah-Jane Vick about the collaborative research which informed the development of Primate Cinema: Apes as Family

DNA sequencing has placed humans firmly within the great apes, so how do our cognitive abilities differ from those of chimpanzees? Creativity is considered to be a divide between humans and other species, but do we share basic preferences for novelty and perhaps even form and content with our closest relations? The symposium will explore similarities and differences in perception, cognition and socio-emotional behaviour between humans and chimpanzees, through the perspectives of comparative psychologist Dr Sarah Jane Vick, who studies chimpanzee cognition and behaviour and artist Rachel Mayeri, whose new work Primate Cinema: Apes as Family was made with the chimpanzees at the Budongo Trail, Edinburgh Zoo.

Rachel Mayeri's video installation Primate Cinema: Apes as Family is on show at The Arts Catalyst, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5PS, until 13 November 2011, 12noon-6pm Tuesday to Sunday, Thursdays 12noon-8pm, admission free.

Admission free, booking essential.