HUMAN SCARECROWS

HUMAN SCARECROWS

everyday from the 21st to the 29th at 5pm

Vandaler forening is organizing Human Scarecrows for Flatbread Society.

It will happen in parallel to Into the Ground and Up To the Sky, marking the raise of Flatbread Society’s Bakehouse.

Seeds will be sowed the 21st by all the core members – Oslo Apiary, Growlab, Food Studio, Hage Crew, Emmanuel Rang, Herbanists and Zoe Christensen – according to the scheme of Bootes’ constellation, including each core member into a circle or «star».

Human Scarecrows’ series of non-eventful moments will suggest performative rituals allowing a dialogue with the birds to prevent them from eating the seeds. Rather than chasing them away, we aim to engage a dialogue and distract them by any means: they will be the true spectators.
All the performances and actions will be using alternative technologies as source of power and will be activated in between sunsets and sunrises.

program:

saturday 21 I 5pm: Fernanda Franco I Paolo Gaiba Riva I Nora Fiona Eriksen

sunday 22 I 5pm: Marthe Van Dessel

monday 23 I 5pm: feilkontroll

tuesday 24 I 5pm: Aksel Høgenhaug

wednesday 25 I 5pm: Maria Belic

thursday 26 I 5pm: Ellmer Stefan & Agnes Hvizdalek

friday 27 I 5pm: Ragnhild Aamås

saturday 28 I 5 pm: Agnieszka Golaszewska

sunday 29 I 5pm: Mattias Cantzler

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(picture credits: Joar Nango)

Long version:

Seeds will be sowed the 21st by all the core members – Oslo Apiary, Growlab, Food Studio, Hage Crew, Emmanuel Rang, Jørund Aase Falkenberg, Herbanists and Zoe Christensen – according to the scheme of Bootes’ constellation, including each core member into a circle or «star».
Bootes is a constellation made up of twelve stars and is also known as the Shepherd. Nine of the stars will be hosted at Losæter and three will be located at host farms outside of Oslo.
Human Scarecrows will be present in Losæter, marking the transitional space in between each of the star.
The core members will sow edible flowers and plants, to create a durational urban garden, open to all the neighborhood and visitors.

After the sowing process, the birds threaten the site as they might eat the seeds.

This is where Human Scarecrows’ series of non-eventful moments will suggest performative rituals allowing a dialogue with the birds to prevent them from eating the seeds. Rather than chasing them away, we aim to engage a dialogue and distract them by any means: they will be the true spectators.
All the performances and actions will be using alternative technologies as source of power and will be activated in between sunsets and sunrises.

Via Radio Ramona (created by the artist and art producer Marthe Van Dessel), Paolo Gaìba Riva will air sound recordings made from the birds’ perspective, which will also function a subjective documentation of the whole event.

Fernanda Branco will open the ceremony, joining the core members in an abstract choreography around the actions of sowing-sewing. As the ritual takes shape and following the restrictions of using alternative technologies, the noise musician Nora Fiona Eriksen will Play the Sun, a semi- composed piece using different electronics. By using the sun as a power source, her electronics will mark the contrasts of this brutal force of nature. How gently is allows to harvest it’s energy. As the battery runs out, it will be a reminder of our own mortality.

Seemingly working around the idea of the loss of power or energy, the experimental project feilkontroll will join Human Scarecrows by composing a piece responding to birds’ emergency calls. The four members – Ole-Peter Arneberg, Torbjørn P. Larssen, Torunn Avelsgaard Lien and Hanan Benammar – will repeat their piece until complete exhaustion of their bodies.

Helped by a hand-made structure, Aksel Høgenhaug will attempt to stretch the conversation with the birds by spreading an online bird-song archive with portable speaker, activated by wind energy. If the wind blows hard enough, the sound will be spread continuously. If not, he will have to run around the site for several hours a day.

Experimental sound production being at the very core of the program, Marthe Van Dessel will perform with her hand-made instruments at the start of Human Scarecrows while Mattias Cantzler will end the program, installing Mariusstrømpeblues, a hand-made 3 tones busker organ which will previously be shown during Oslo Utmark outdoor exhibition.

Ellmer Stefan & Agnes Hvizdalek’s contribution will take ornithological material such as books, videos, recordings as a starting point for an interplay of mutual mimesis. The birds as a concrete natural threat will be confronted with and demystified by various modes of cultural representation in form of scientific illustration and description, bird-song transcriptions and recitation. By displaying (visual, textual, acoustic) our human assumptions the high degree of misunderstanding between man and bird, the semantic and logic asynchronicity will leave this absurd attempt of imitation with only one conclusion: the infinite unintelligibility of «the other».

As much as poetry is rooted in both musical and textual formats, Ragnhild Aamås will perform a monologue as an anthem to our flying fellows.
During the performative improvised poetry club Flight Club, Maria Belic will respond to the sowing site by showing the birds their compliant transactions, engaging with time as a main medium.

Pushing the format of durational performance, Agnieszka Golaszewska will undertake an ongoing site-specific film set The Streamer from the Background Noise where she will be filming for seven days an improvised movie with the help of guest actors. She will engage live performance, sound and projection on the towers.
All these spontaneous actions on site will be thus amplify the building process of Into the Ground and up to (into) the Sky.

Human Scarecrows is uncurated by vandaler forening, commissioned by Flatbread Society and made possible by the great support of Futurefarmers and PNEK.

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