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Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau present:<\/em><\/p>\n „LET ME OUT !“<\/strong><\/p>\n Project description (may 2008):<\/strong><\/p>\n Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau will present a living sculpture in their booth at the Subversiv Messe in Linz 2009. They will present their loving pet „Marcel“, an African Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus) emprisoned in a golden cage.<\/p>\n It is expected that Marcel will perform a short and heart breaking speech in the booth throughout the Subversive Messe crying: \u00e2\u20ac\u017eLET ME OUT!\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and thus addressing a direct request to the visitors of the \u00e2\u20ac\u017esubversive fair\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 and making a comment on \u00e2\u20ac\u0161subversion in a golden cage\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. The parrot yawl will be omnipresent at the fair and confronting the visitors with an exotic pet crying for freedom.<\/p>\n Realisation (february – april 2009):<\/strong><\/p>\n We bought a one year old African Grey parrot from a private person in Belgium who showed us medical documentation of it. But only after a week the parrot started to show alarming signs of not wanting to eat and not looking healthy generally. We brought it to a specialised veterinary who told us that it has a severe Chlamydiosis (Psittacosis) and started a treatment immediately. Despite our efforts to give the parrot its medication every day it died after two weeks of treatment.<\/p>\n We decided to show the dead parrot (taxidermised in the position we found it dead) in its cage. We understand that this is quite a strange thing to show but it appears that life can be much more subversive than any smart or stupid art project – especially when it ruins a \u00e2\u20ac\u0161subversive\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 art project.<\/p>\n We asked a taxidermist to prepare the parrot in the same position it died and followed the work of the taxidermist. At a certain point \u00e2\u20ac\u201c before the taxidermy was completed \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we found the bird cleaned and emptied on the taxidermy desk, folded like a costume. We decided to keep it in this strange form which might suggest the ultimate escape of the soul from the body.<\/p>\n Kristofer & Ondrej<\/p>\n![\""Let](\"http:\/\/old.brodypaetau.com\/downloads\/\/2009\/05\/subversivmesse.jpg\")
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