Originally I had intended all three propositions for the exhibition How does a network activate a public? to be wall statements only. Thus the third proposition is the most speculative and least determined: World distribution of the Shy Albatross Thalassarche cauta according to http://www.iucnredlist.org/ The Shy Albatross Thalassarche cauta flies in a ‘casual, hump-backed, …
On Monday (8 February) I visited Lake Richmond, Lake Walyungup and Lake Clifton. At each site I saw pelicans in the sky.
The do-it-yourself guide to urban wildlife habitat regeneration or, how to make a kingfisher from a discarded IRN BRU can by Jethro Brice see http://www.instructables.com/id/kingfisher-project%2c-Kelvinbridge%2c-Glasgow%2c-2006/
Unfortunately no image but an interesting project: Birdland is an immersive sound work. Set in a 3D game construction space, visuals are minimalised and sound is maximalised in order to experiment with sensations, perceptions and flows of listening. Within the space, the user glides freely around sculptural, architectural and topological formations. The project aims …
Dutch artist Germaine Kruip filmed satin bowerbirds in her work Aesthetics as a Way of Survival similar to my 2004 video work herethere(hide). Her film about the bowerbird poses the question relating to the »artificial« and the »natural« in a surprisingly new way, encompassing the whole exhibition with this dichotomy. Guided by visual similarities …
This is from a group exhibition called flight Justin Gibbens, “Paradise nebulosa,” 2009. Watercolour, colored pencil, gouache on paper, 64 x 26 inches. At G. Gibson Gallery
Emerging Nyoongar artist, Peter Farmer, makes monochromatic blue paintings which reflect the beauty of the Blue Wren found in the south-west of Western Australia. Peter’s paintings evoke the deep history and relationship of his people to their country and its fauna. His Blue Wren totem comes from his great-grandmother via his father, Peter Farmer …
by jane ulman, 22.08.08 Bird on a wire, in the hand, in the bush, bird on the wing, of the air, of a feather, of passage, of paradise, of peace… early bird, night owl, rain bird, lyrebird, sea bird, song bird bird of prey, bird’s eye, bird’s nest, birdsong… The landscape is alive with song. …