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A BIRD IN YOUR HEAD
9. 10. 2009
Tina b. Festival, Prague (CZ)
Duration: ca. 11 min.
Materials: a fan, birdseed, a little bird (Munia Striata) in a cardborard cage, a clock, one piece of paper with information for each member of the audience.
Description:
I close the door of the room and put up a warning: DO NOT ENTER! PERFORMANCE IN PROGRESS. I give a piece of paper with the follow information in Czech / English to each spectator:
I turn on the fan and wait 5 minutes facing the audience. The great majority of the audience leave the room. After the 5 minutes I turn off the fan, I eat birdseed, I go to the birdcage, I take the bird with my right hand and keep it in my fist. I go to a spectator and invite him to clench my fist. He clenchs it. I say thank you! to him and to the rest of the audience and I leave the space.
Concept:
I’m creating a situation together with the audience, in which they are taken actively part and carrying the responsability of my action. Why do you stay in the room? Why do you leave? Why are you doing what you are doing? I’m interested, in one hand, in the crossing point beetwen an ethical action and a performance action, and in the other, in the imaginated action, that happens in the head of the audience before I do the action and even outside the space where is taken place the performance.
photo by Justyna Wozniak
9. 10. 2009
Tina b. Festival, Prague (CZ)
Duration: ca. 11 min.
Materials: a fan, birdseed, a little bird (Munia Striata) in a cardborard cage, a clock, one piece of paper with information for each member of the audience.
Description:
I close the door of the room and put up a warning: DO NOT ENTER! PERFORMANCE IN PROGRESS. I give a piece of paper with the follow information in Czech / English to each spectator:
I turn on the fan and wait 5 minutes facing the audience. The great majority of the audience leave the room. After the 5 minutes I turn off the fan, I eat birdseed, I go to the birdcage, I take the bird with my right hand and keep it in my fist. I go to a spectator and invite him to clench my fist. He clenchs it. I say thank you! to him and to the rest of the audience and I leave the space.
Concept:
I’m creating a situation together with the audience, in which they are taken actively part and carrying the responsability of my action. Why do you stay in the room? Why do you leave? Why are you doing what you are doing? I’m interested, in one hand, in the crossing point beetwen an ethical action and a performance action, and in the other, in the imaginated action, that happens in the head of the audience before I do the action and even outside the space where is taken place the performance.
photo by Justyna Wozniak