Bird on the Wire
Installation
Sound 3,30 min in loop.
2019
Surround-sound speaker system, International Italian pizzeria desk, pizzeria menu cards, track-marking tape, gym equipment, embroidered banner x 4 (150 cm x 70 cm) and 3 local bands.
The sound is performed by:
Ivan Stenard, Gide Andrew Nwawuda and Logan London
Edit: Stine Kvam
https://soundcloud.com/stinepine/bird-on-the-wire
Best listened to in headphones or with proper volume
In a chaotic world of eternal change and creation - this installation plays with the inherent human need to create meaning in everything we face.
From a surround-sound speaker system, comes the sound of three groaning men in a sports hall, their creaking rubber shoes as they run at a fast pace, gasping for air, while shouting statements such as: I am !, I want !, I am looking for!.
When one of the men shouts Bird on the Wire! - the others answer Oh, no! and everyone stops their activities.
It may seem as if their shouting are a way of confirming their own and each other's existence before they are instantly sucked into an endless drain of oblivion.
The floor of the exhibition space is covered with floor markings from sports-halls in distorted perspectives, rib walls, basketball goals and other gym materials. An embroidered banner with a symbolic bird on a wire, hangs from the ceiling.
From a surround-sound speaker system, comes the sound of three groaning men in a sports hall, their creaking rubber shoes as they run at a fast pace, gasping for air, while shouting statements such as: I am !, I want !, I am looking for!.
When one of the men shouts Bird on the Wire! - the others answer Oh, no! and everyone stops their activities.
It may seem as if their shouting are a way of confirming their own and each other's existence before they are instantly sucked into an endless drain of oblivion.
The floor of the exhibition space is covered with floor markings from sports-halls in distorted perspectives, rib walls, basketball goals and other gym materials. An embroidered banner with a symbolic bird on a wire, hangs from the ceiling.
An International Italian pizzeria-desk in one corner of the exhibition space, is served by a pizzeria employee who periodically hands out menu cards. In the menu cards, the men's statements are nicely presented as a poem.
The text presented as a poem versus the men's desperate utterances, creates strikingly different interpretive possibilities.
The banner with the symbolic bird on a wire doesn't do much to create coherence in the elements of the exhibition and the audience is left in a confused state.
An international orchestra composed of a samba bateria, a Danish orchestra and drill girls and boys carrying the exhibition's banner, marches through the city streets and into the exhibition on certain days and times during the exhibition period.
This work has no intentions of going beyond the momentum of confusion, but will stay and vibrate, producing new questions that are inherent possibilities, - with the promise of more..
The text presented as a poem versus the men's desperate utterances, creates strikingly different interpretive possibilities.
The banner with the symbolic bird on a wire doesn't do much to create coherence in the elements of the exhibition and the audience is left in a confused state.
An international orchestra composed of a samba bateria, a Danish orchestra and drill girls and boys carrying the exhibition's banner, marches through the city streets and into the exhibition on certain days and times during the exhibition period.
This work has no intentions of going beyond the momentum of confusion, but will stay and vibrate, producing new questions that are inherent possibilities, - with the promise of more..
The men's statements presented as a poem in the international Italian pizza brochure:
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My name is Logan
I am I was Your name is Andrew Your name is Ivan I am Bird on the wire! Oh no I want I am I'm looking for I am My name is Andrew My name is Ivan Bird on the wire! Oh no Your name is Andrew My name is Andrew You are I was I'm looking for Looking for.. Bird on the wire! Oh, no I want I am I was My name is Ivan My name is Andrew Bird on the wire! Oh no I'm looking for.. Bird on the wire! Oh, no Your name is Andrew My name is Andrew Your name is? I was I am Bird on the wire! Oh, no Bird on the wire! Oh, no |