FREE A FLOCK (Joinville, Brazil)
RESCUE A RODENT (Lansing, USA)
InterCIDADES is an itinerant, international exhibit of contemporary art that brings together works by artists from cities of different languages and contexts - Joinville/Brazil and Lansing/USA.
Institution promoting the event: Schwanke Museum of Contemporary Art, Joinville, Brazil
Curators: Alena Marmo (Brazil), James L.Lawton (USA) and Jefferson KIelwagen (Brazil)
This Performance is a animal intervention based on an action attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
The Mind of Leonardo da Vinci By Edward McCurdy (one of the two translators and compilers of Leonardo's Notebooks into English.)
"Vasari tells, as an instance of his love of animals, how when in Florence he passed places where birds were sold he would frequently take them from their cages with his own hand, and having paid the sellers the price that was asked would let them fly away in the air, thus giving them back their liberty."
Joinville, July 28, 2013 Humberto Soares(Brazil) presented "Free A Flock" by Elise Toups(USA)
10 Parakeets bought from pet stores were given a chance to live freely.
Lansing, October 20, 2013 Elise Toups presented "Rescue a Rodent"
3 Feeder Mice bought from PetSmart were given back their liberty.
Photography:
Brazil, Larissa Miiller da Silva
Lansing, Elise Toups, Ryan Groendyk, and Dylan Wahl
Institution promoting the event: Schwanke Museum of Contemporary Art, Joinville, Brazil
Curators: Alena Marmo (Brazil), James L.Lawton (USA) and Jefferson KIelwagen (Brazil)
This Performance is a animal intervention based on an action attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
The Mind of Leonardo da Vinci By Edward McCurdy (one of the two translators and compilers of Leonardo's Notebooks into English.)
"Vasari tells, as an instance of his love of animals, how when in Florence he passed places where birds were sold he would frequently take them from their cages with his own hand, and having paid the sellers the price that was asked would let them fly away in the air, thus giving them back their liberty."
Joinville, July 28, 2013 Humberto Soares(Brazil) presented "Free A Flock" by Elise Toups(USA)
10 Parakeets bought from pet stores were given a chance to live freely.
Lansing, October 20, 2013 Elise Toups presented "Rescue a Rodent"
3 Feeder Mice bought from PetSmart were given back their liberty.
Photography:
Brazil, Larissa Miiller da Silva
Lansing, Elise Toups, Ryan Groendyk, and Dylan Wahl
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