(un)bird, a series of not so successful mimicking of a small bird in the finnish forest.
exhibition at Utrecht, tokyo from 5 may-12 may 2012
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making (un)bird
conceptualised/videographed/ edited by aiwei foo
thank you markus koistinen for some of the footages
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The Sound From The Tree, It’s About To Fall
few weeks ago markus and i went to the forest. i was intending to do a shoot of me pretending to be a bird, and he wanted to blow his handmade pipe among the woods. i have succeeded in pretending a not too successful clumsy bird, and he blew his pipes. he has many of them, in different sizes. he is a good wood man, a pipe man, a finnish man.
it was early spring (well.. i am unsure it was spring then, for the unexpected spring snow that arrived), the forest was still covered in snow. fallen trees were found at some part of the forest, and we have to walk and climb over them on a hill/slope in order to reach the stairs opposite to go downhill. it was a little adventure, not too much. but for someone who have been living in a concrete jungle for half of her life, this is quite an adventure. and for someone as clumsy as me, i could already imagine myself rolling down the hill, fell into the frozen river, slip on the ice, get hit by the tree trunks… there are so many possibilities, how an accident can happen on me.
