Animal Golf
Saeborg
Saeborg calls herself an “imperfect cyborg that is half-human and half-toy.”
Saeborg is a Japanese artist known for her performances wearing latex body suits and cartoon-like installations. Her exaggerated, poppy and ‘kawaii’ characters and spaces are not just that – they also offer critical reflections on identity, gender, biopolitics and animal welfare.
Animal Golf invites players to swap a traditional putter for a strap-on latex animal tail—fox, kangaroo, squirrel, and more—and use their bodies to play. A chaotic soundtrack of humans making animal noises marks a timed play period and turns the putting green into an absurd performance space. Players are asked to treat their tails as extensions of their own bodies, prompting empathy and a playful rethinking of the human-animal divide.
Animal Golf extends Saeborg’s ongoing critique of consumer culture and the systems through which bodies—both animal and human—are disciplined, commodified, and controlled.