Der Vogel kann nicht schlafen 2

«Der Vogel kann nicht schlafen», an ongoing series

* Der Vogel kann nicht schlafen 1, a score for 3 musicians and one performer
* Der Vogel kann nicht schlafen 2, an unfinished installation with various materials
* Der Vogel kann nicht schlafen 3, two visual works

initial situation

In Lockdown, in March 2020, I was in the forest a lot. Once I saw the bright green silhouette of a bird sprayed on a tree. Flashy green, small, it looked, fragile, because I was far away, but it was glowing. A message? In any case, the bird burned itself into me and triggered an initial ignition:

«.. ramble through the forest ... a bird, sprayed in poison-green paint on a tree trunk, leaps into my retina ... then the sentence DER VOGEL KANN NICHT (MEHR) SCHLAFEN (the bird can't sleep any more), which I had written a long time ago, comes into my hands ... from then on I turn to dissimilar things like trees ... together we practise otherness in being close to each other ... exchange genetic information via skin and tree bark ... together we draw on the fictional to describe the real ...»