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CSIRIP
9 - 15.8.2010
Sziget Festival, Budapest
Duration: 1 week
Materials: 23 printed T-Shirts, 500 buttons
The Sziget Festival is the largest music festival in Europe. It takes place on a small island which looks like a big park full of trees and grass and has around 350,000 visitors, mostly young people.
Dealing directly with this context, I developed a performance that deals with the absence of the chirping sounds of birds on the island - because of the continuous loud music and noise during the festival.
In order to draw attention to the missing bird songs, during the week of the festival I wore 23 T-shirts, each one printed with an onomatopoeia of the chirping sound of birds in one of the 23 official languages of the European Union. I walked amongst the people and interacted with them by giving them a button with one of the 23 onomatopoeia (like tweet tweet, pío pío, piep piep, csirip csirip, cip cip, etc.) printed on it. By wearing the buttons spread the different human translations of the bird´s sounds throughout the festival.
photos by Tomas Opitz
9 - 15.8.2010
Sziget Festival, Budapest
Duration: 1 week
Materials: 23 printed T-Shirts, 500 buttons
The Sziget Festival is the largest music festival in Europe. It takes place on a small island which looks like a big park full of trees and grass and has around 350,000 visitors, mostly young people.
Dealing directly with this context, I developed a performance that deals with the absence of the chirping sounds of birds on the island - because of the continuous loud music and noise during the festival.
In order to draw attention to the missing bird songs, during the week of the festival I wore 23 T-shirts, each one printed with an onomatopoeia of the chirping sound of birds in one of the 23 official languages of the European Union. I walked amongst the people and interacted with them by giving them a button with one of the 23 onomatopoeia (like tweet tweet, pío pío, piep piep, csirip csirip, cip cip, etc.) printed on it. By wearing the buttons spread the different human translations of the bird´s sounds throughout the festival.
photos by Tomas Opitz