"Zugunruhe" Installation Time-lapse - "The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art"
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- "Zugunruhe" Installation Time-lapse - "The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art"
- Description
- Rachel Berwick's "Zugunruhe" simulates the wonder of a passenger pigeon flock amidst a vast forest. Despite the illusion, the sculpture is composed of a lone tree supporting hundreds of cast pigeons. As one walks around the piece, the birds appear to multiply and vanish in the mirrored surface, suggesting their historic migrations and ultimate extinction. The term "zugunruhe" describes the nighttime restlessness that all birds exhibit before migration. But here their movement is arrested. The passenger pigeon is frozen in time like a specimen preserved in amber. In a poignant twist, Berwick’s motionless birds can only be reanimated by our own movement around the glass. Learn more: http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2014/birds/
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- 1 min 25 sec
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington DC Gallery Place Portrait Lunder Luce Conservation Kogod sculpture statues web series short film museum landmark culture humanities visual arts
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- 2014-11-03T16:59:37.000Z
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- Art, American
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