Having shar ed a studio for seven years, Arlene Wandera (b. Nairobi, Kenya) and Richard Zeiss (b. Vienna, Austria) started collaborating in 2015 under the umbrella of "Duck & Rabbit Projects", a reference to Wittgenstein's famous duck-rabbit illusion...
The project was initiated as an inquiry, into how their vastly different cultural and artistic backgrounds would translate into a show setting; how the viewers would experience the work; whose work would set the tone in which context; and whether the show would be experienced as a sum of its parts, or morph into something new and different altogether.