Born out of the time and idleness of an art residence in the island of Kotlin - Russia, in the St. Petersburg region during a residency offered by the Russian National Center for Contemporary Arts.
Isolated and very peaceful place, my attention was caught by birds, regular birds, pigeons, which look and behave exactly the same in such a distant place. This explicit observation was followed by research on why does pigeons are dealt with many times as a plague, often matched to rats and in general not as welcome beings like another city birds like seagulls, sparrows or ducks.
The work is based in comparing and connecting the city space use from both us, humans and those birds, and somehow pointing out that maybe is just a usual man behavior to split things in classes and categories, goods and bads, safe and dangerous, but then in the end those affirmations can be very autocrat and have an unpredictable aftermath.
Divided in 3 chapters, the videos leave open for the viewer to judge what could be a critic of society, provocation or a naive sense of humor, but with a sensibility to show that we inhabit the same spaces, harmoniously, thanks to the background of those birds being mostly Rock Doves, who used to populate natural cliffs - closer to contemporary apartment buildings than to trees, among many other examples.
Text and voice by Jefferson Parsons, Neelum Saran Gour, and Annie Rovzar.
Premiered at Kino Central - Berlin - medienwerkstatt