Juste pour les oiseaux
Strictly for the Birds
(Uitsluitend voor vogels)
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Performance - installation, Taller, France , 2001
by Jacqueline Wassen, Sonja van Kerkhoff and Sen McGlinn
Tama began to play music and a crowd gathered.
at the
edge of the forest.
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Tama improvising on recorder in a tree at the start of the performance.
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Tama played for about ten minutes,
then I explained that they had to follow Toroa.
They were told to copy his actions.
...TEXT & LAYOUT TO COME...
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"Soft eggs" by Jessy Rahman were propped in the branches of a
tree. Beyond this a bright green piece of material seemed to grow out of
the end of a thin branch and beyond that we had written a text on a piece
of wallpaper on the wall of the shed. It read "I like my birdhouses
with elaborations". To the right of the ladder two birdhouse shapes
had been cut out of floral wallpaper and hung above two metal brackets.
The text was intended as a humourous reference to Christophe's new gallery
with its birdhouse-like tower as well as a contribution to our theme of
'odd bird' references in our forest installation. |
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Toroa touched the plastic ball holding a minuature tree and then walked
over to the shower block.
We sealed the doorway by wallpapering it.
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touches of red -everywhere
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The third shower contained numerious bird-form interventions
made by Jacqueline in ink, chalk combined with the found objects from around
the area.They were fossil-like "relics", or remainders.
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In the fourth shower Jacqueline had lifted up the wooden floor and placed
a drawing she made of a bird in a cage into the pit underneath. |
 
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| Each of the 30 or so birdhouse forms were cut out of patterned wallpaper. Each was about 40 x 15 cm.
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Photo: Christophe Doucet
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Other "Land art related" works
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Inland Soul at Sea, also installed during the 9 Dragonheads festival.
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Fruits of the Earth, spiral cut out of a dried grass area inserted with plastic flowers, 2003.
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With fire we test the gold and with gold we test our servants, 2003, wooden sculpture made during a Sculpture Symposium in a park in a village in Northern Romania.
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Inspiration, 2001, paintings on shaped canvas laid over a floor.
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Just pour les oiseaux (Strictly for the birds), 2001, installations and performances during a walk through a forest setting led by a guide.
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Onder vier ogen (Between you and me)
, 2001, mask-forms hung on trees, with texts and images in the orifices.
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The Living Creature, 1999, performances by seven artists and one child in a rose garden in a public park in London.
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Memorials, 1996-2001, ceramic tiles laid into the earth.
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Te Koru Iwa, 1996, fire drawing at the Oerol Arts Festival, The Netherlands.
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Letters van de Levende, 1996, 19 batikked flags along the ridge of sand dunes during the Oerol Arts Festival.
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