Bird on the Wire
Installation
Sound 3,30 min in loop.
2019
Surround sound speakers with subwoofers, international Italian pizzeria desk, brochures, track marking tape, gym equipment, standing fans, embroidered flag (150 cm x 70 cm) and performance with a local international band.
Performed by: Ivan Stenard, Gide Andrew Nwawuda and Logan London
Sound 3,30 min in loop.
2019
Surround sound speakers with subwoofers, international Italian pizzeria desk, brochures, track marking tape, gym equipment, standing fans, embroidered flag (150 cm x 70 cm) and performance with a local international band.
Performed by: Ivan Stenard, Gide Andrew Nwawuda and Logan London
https://soundcloud.com/stinepine/bird-on-the-wire
Sound should be listened to in headphones or with proper volume
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From a heavy surround sound speaker system comes the sound of fast pacing, creaking rubber shoes and three moaning men in a sports hall, gasping for air while shouting statements like:
I am, I want, I'm looking for. When one shouts Bird on the Wire! the other men replies, and everyone stops their activities for no apparent reason. Seemingly they need to confirm their own and each other's existence before they, in a minute will be sucked into an endless dark drain. The exhibition space is covered with floor markings for sports halls in odd positions, rib walls, basketball goals and embroidered banners with an emblematic bird on a wire. Spotlights pointed at the floor markings light up the otherwise darkened space. The men's uttering are neatly presented as a poem in brochures for the audience, and resembles the international pizza menu card. The text as a poem versus when it's shouted out loud, is very different. This work plays with the idea of a rational production of meaning. The audience is deliberately left in an ambivalence regarding the meaning of the work and there’s no intention of going beyond this momentum of confusion, but rather to keep producing questions, possibilities, exits and promises for more. |
Local international band with the installations flag
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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 |