Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Duration Piece no. 5, he uses photos to define an event--an individual hearing and following bird calls. The photos never show evidence of the bird, they only record tree trunks, park lamp posts, rocks and dirt. Huebler is interested in the human approach to following a bird call not in the illustration of beautiful landscapes and fantastic birds that we imagine...
...work's statement explains: "During a ten minute period of time on March 17, 1969 ten photographs were made each documenting the location in Central Park where an individually distinguishable bird call was heard. Each photograph was made with the camera pointed in the direction of the sound. That direction was then walked toward by the auditor until the instant that the next call was heard, at which time the next photograph was made and the next direction taken...
...AVERAGE citizen of our culture might find himself in Huebler's situation--following a bird call. Yet, most of us would probably be intent on discovering the location of the bird, and determining whether it was a warbler or a Gymnogyps Californianus. (The Surrealist would be more concerned with painting a California condor ominously perched on a common park beach. While this conceptual artist is more concerned with locating the bird.) It is not surprising that Huebler does not paint bird images, but rather that he labels this a duration piece rather than calling it a location piece. The emphasis...
...disturbing classmates. One is his proud seatmate Carlo Cattolica, whose "clarity of mind and profile, etched with a medal's sharpness" arouses the narrator's fascination and envy. The other is Luciano Pulga, a scruffy, pushy newcomer to the school "with a physique like a little wading bird's." Pulga is slavishly and successfully cultivated by the young Jew until Cattolica moves against them like a starfish bisecting a clam...
...three-part system of Government" as a consequence. He admits that it will be hard to rally wide public support for his latest crusade. "We do not have to get 200 million people interested in Congress," he says. "But perhaps we can make Congress as interesting as bird watching." When a wiseacre reporter asked him how many bird watchers there are, Nader answered. "Roughly 400,000," he said. It was a too facile riposte: The number of dedicated bird watchers in the U.S. is generally estimated to be at least...