Didsbury Arts Festival 2009
26 Sep - 3 Oct
Sous Chef, West Didsbury
For Didsbury Arts Festival I exhibited a video installation completed as part of an urban ecology of chance.
Encounters with wild birds of Beijing.
Early each morning, older generations of Chinese men stroll to local parks all over Beijing, carrying with them caged songbirds, which have become common pets. The men play cards and chess and their cages hang in nearby trees, the birds singing to one another.
In this installation video footage of my own encounters with the wild birds of Beijing is projected onto small screens inside the cages. The viewer can also hear bird song and the ambient hum of a city.
Sous Chef, West Didsbury.
Sous Chef, West Didsbury.
Encounters with wild birds of Beijing, installation view, Sous Chef, 2009