Exhibition at ACCA http://www.accaonline.org.au/Current GERDA STEINER & JÖRG LENZLINGER The Water Hole 23 December 2008 – 1 March 2009 Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger have created an ecological fantasy-world in ACCA’s main gallery. The pair, who have collaborated since 1997, bring together made and found objects to create extravagant, magical installations that …
At the end of a long drought, cattle, some of whom had never experienced rain, performed a dance of celebration by jumping first on their front and then on their back legs. Unfortunately I cannot find any photos of videos of this phenomena although I once saw a video by Karin Wegsjö of Swedish …
In Alaska, while it is legal to shoot bears, waking a sleeping bear form the purpose of taking a photograph is illegal. In Massachusetts, no gorilla is allowed in the back seat of any car. It is illegal to annoy a bird in any city park of Honolulu Hawaii.
25 people stand in a growth ring of a spinifex clump in the Great Victoria Desert
The tide is out in Roebuck Bay (from bower 2)
Thoughts on a pebble
A small image (presumably from a contact sheet) taken by czech Dr Jirí Baum when he travelled around the world and visited Australia in 1935. Dig that plant pattern in the background.
Another idea that I couldn’t do for The Systems of Nature was to collect up all the published information about bowerbirds and to use biological software that plots the relatedness of things to be able to draw a sort of evolutionary chart of bowerbird research. This type here always reminds me of dandelions.
Sandy checking out the camera.This is a shot of the installation in the fieldwork/fieldwalking show taken inside the hide of the 63 minute loop video projection. It was shown in the semi show in 2004 and again in 2007 at the fieldwork/fieldwalking show at the conclusion of the PhD of the same name.
A bowerbird just before being released after banding by Class A birdbander Naoko Takeuchi (photo taken at Broome Bird Observatory). Note quite boxy wide head and comparatively long neck which is also obvious in flight.
Have just discovered that Clifford and Dawn have written a new book Bowerbirds: Nature, Art and History to be published in December. It even has a whole section on the history of bowerbird discovery and bowerbirds and human culture. They have done my work for me!
A bird from the eastern states decorating with red objects
One of the early ideas I had for The System of Nature was making a blended goniometer — the instrument that measures crystal angles. This was because Linnaeus had proposed a much less successful system for the classification of the mineral kingdom. There was a goniometer in the geology museum.