Hi everyone,
my
name's xxxxxxxxx and I am one of the Directors of xxxxxxxxx in
xxxxxxxxx. xxxxxxxx has given me your email addresses so that I can
co-ordinate the show from here.
I just wanted to write to introduce myself and to say that we have chosen a date for the show which is March 25.
xxxxx
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Hi,
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Hi xxxxx
This is antonio.
The work I’m participating with at your place it’s HENS IN THE PARK
The
description: THIS PROJECT - TO GIVE FREEDOM TO THE HENS IN ALL THE
PARKS AROUND THE WORLD - WANTS TO PROPORTIONATE THE BEST ENVIRONMENT
FOR THE HENS, AND IT HAS ALL THE CONFIDENCE ON THEM FOR A HAPPY
ADAPTATION TO IT. WE INVITE YOU TO DEVELOP, DIRECTLY, THIS PROJECT IN
YOUR CLOSER PARK.
xxxxxxxxx has told me you can’t help us with travel or production costs.
This is not a problem if you could enlarge my project at xxxxxxxx following these easy instructions:
Ask them to get two hens and a cock; they have to give them a name.
They have to live with those hens and cock for a time.
Finally, they have to give them freedom in a park
All has to be documented with pictures, and one copy of each it will be part of my work and showed at the exhibition.
If this is possible to produce by you, it will be better for me than any exhibition fee or travel or anything.
Würzburg park
Morden Hall Park
Hopefully we’ll add some xxxxxxxxx Park name.
All the best
antonio
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Hi Antonio,
we're worried that the chickens will die in the park.
xxxxx
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OF
COURSE IT’S PART OF THE RISK, BUT DON’T WORRY, THEY’LL SURVIVE IF YOU
PROVIDE THEM JUST A PLACE TO SLEEP, A WOOD BOX IT’S MORE THAN ENOUGH.
IF DUCKS DESERVE TO LIVE IN THE PARK, THE HENS SHOULD HAVE THE SAME OPORTUNITIES!!!!
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Hi Antonio,
Xxxxx
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HI, xxxxx
THIS IS ANTONIO.
THERE IS AN INTERESTING SITUATION, WHICH, I THINK, IT LOUDS MY PROJECT.
IN
ONE HAND, YOU AGREE IN ACCEPTING MY PROJECT TO BE EXHIBITED, BUT YOU
DIFFER IN THE IDEA WHICH SUSTENDS THE PROJECT: YOU ARE DEEPLY AGAINST
LEAVE HENS IN THE PARK. I’D LIKE SHOW TO THE PUBLIC THIS SITUATION, BUT
IN A GOOD WAY, I GUESS NOT PUTTING IN A BAD POSITION TO XXXX, MY IDEA
IS TO SHOW THE MORAL DILEMMA,
LET’S FORGOT ABOUT ART, ITS ABOUT IDEOLOGY.SO, MY PROPOSITION IT’S
PARTICIPATE AT THE EXHIBITION WITH A DOCUMENT SIMILAR TO THAT ONE I
ATTACH.AS I SAID I THINK THIS IS GOOD FOR THE PROGRESSION OF MY
PROJECT, BUT:
IT BOTHERS YOU THE SOLUTION I PROPOSE?
IF NOT, I’LL WORK ON THIS LINE, PLEASE ANY SUGGESTION IS WELCOMED
SEE YOU
HENS IN THE PARK:
THIS PROJECT - TO LEAVE HENS IN ALL THE PARKS AROUND THE WORLD - WANTS
TO PROPORTIONATE THE BEST ENVIRONMENT FOR THE HENS, AND IT HAS ALL THE
CONFIDENCE ON THEM FOR A BLISSFUL ADAPTATION. WE INVITE YOU TO EXPAND
THIS PROJECT IN YOUR CLOSER PARK.
XXXXXXXX doesn’t care about what i did but they don’t want to do it.
Morden Hall Park Parque de Würzburg
Battersea Park Parc de la Devesa
Antonio Ortega wanted to show and ongoing this project at xxxxxxxxx They were asked to follow these instructions:
Contact to an school, a class of twelve years old pupils.
Ask them to get two hens and a cock; they have to give them a name.
They have to live with those hens and cock for a time.
Finally, they have to give them freedom in a park
But xxxxxx regrets because: “We think the chickens will be dead within days, and this is not acceptable”.
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We are happy if you want to have a discussion with us about the issues in the work and exhibit that...
what do you mean by the phrase "XXXXXXXXX doesn’t care about what i did"?
XXXXX
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Wow! That’s mean that this text is not good enough, if it does confuse obviously doesn’t work.
I
tried to write a sentence which explains de paradox between accepting
the display of a project but not what the project it’s about… So, I
have to improve my communication… could you help me?
Anyway I’m working on.
The
objective of this document was only check to you if I was on the
correct way or if I was suggesting something that you were not agree,
and working further was nonsense.
In other hand, I’m preparing the trip to xxxxxxxxx with my wife for the opening:
Could you tip me some accommodation for that night in a place next to the gallery, cheap but cute?
Could you pick us at the airport?
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Hi Antonio,
what exactly do you want to do for the exhibition?
Do you want to exhibit a proposal for the chickens in the park?
Do you want to engage in a dialogue with the gallery about issues raised by the proposal?
OR
(This option hasn't been mentioned so far)
Do you want to document the previous times that you have put chickens in parks in other countries?
Love
Xxxx
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hello Mr. xxxxx
I’m
really happy about the good response from you in order of developing
the Hens project with a discussion. And in your last e-mail you asked
me, what I’m suggesting to display at the exhibition, so here there is
the first step.
.-I’d like to show a document quiet similar at that one I sent you.
.-I’d
like add some information which justifies my position. On that document
you can check that hens are quite happy at the park (I attach a quick
time–document: hens1- only to show you what about this video. I’d like
to display in a portable DVD player)
.-and,
I’d like to make an interview to you -6 to 8 questions-, and also you
have to make me one –same large- discussing the project, so these texts
could be also displayed. I’m preparing the questions I’ll send you next
week, and I’ll wait for yours. Please you will have to correct my poor
English…
Let’s work
Thank you
Antonio
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Hi Antonio,
there's a problem here.
If
you want to engage in a debate on our unhappiness with your project
then we are happy to do that. The interview idea seems ok, except that
I can't see any reason for restricting it to 6 or 8 questions. What if
the 8th question opens up an interesting line of enquiry - would it
have to be abandoned? This seems odd to me.
If
you want to do the interviews as your work for the show, then we would
be happy to do that. However, you are suggesting that the interview is
not the work. What you are proposing, however, is that you make a
document, including a criticism of the gallery and to show a dvd to
back up your position. It seems to me that if you are going to do this,
then we would have to do this too. It is not the dvd that concerns me
really. I can imagine the dvd and the two interviews together, but the
document is biased and so we would have to respond to it. Actually, if
I was honest, I don't really find the document as interesting as the
work. I am very interested in the idea of setting chickens free in the
park, but I don't want that good idea to be spoiled by having all the
chickens killed by foxes. And England is certainly not the place to get
away with cruelty to animals! I'm sure you didn't know before sending
this in that one of the Directors is a vegetarian and the rest of us
deplore animal cruelty.
Anyway, I'm glad we're talking about how to make this idea work for xxxxxx. Tell me what you think of my comments.
Speak soon
Xxxxx
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Hi xxxxx
I can forget the dvd.
About
the document, it’s not a truly document, it’s the first part of our
discussion where the public can get the information about the olds
projects and the new adaptation I proposed to you, remember I told you
about settle the text in order of be precise and clear with the story
so it will work as an introduction to our discussion. This document
could be a DIN A1 photocopied, and we can add photocopies of the text
of our discussions beside. All glued at the wall.
My
proposition of 6 questions it was with the idea of not bothering you
too much, but I can see you are quite satisfied in initializing a
discussion, so lets do it in the proper way, it means as a dialogue
which it arrives as far as we like.
So this is my first question: Do you think there is any difference in any conduct by using the alibi of art?
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we're happy with this.
answers will come later
Xxxxx
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as I'm waiting... I send you some reflections....
We invite to give freedom hens in all the parks around the world.
If
you want visit them regularly, bringing milled maize, their favourite
food, it might be easier for you to grasp their attention. You can also
try with low fat cheese and that will help them to cover their
percentage in calcium needed. If you have any advice or suggestion as
to how we can extend this project to parks all around, please leave
useful contacts, addresses and maybe a supporting letter to send to
your council. Hopefully there will be a day when we can see hens in St
James Park.
Before initializing my project I contacted to the POULTRY Club association from UK.
Their response was:
Your
dream, I'm afraid is "pie in the sky" as there are so many pitfalls
that come to mind. The first is that you would be providing Mr Reynard
(the urban fox) with a constant supply of suppers as they would be very
easy to catch not like ducks that roost on islands or on the water.
Chickens have the natural instinct to scratch out the gardens looking for tasty morsels, ducks do not do this.
They would need housing as they are not so weather resistant as ducks.
They would need special food, not just bread like ducks.
The viability of the project -A NON STARTER-
The theory and the dream are OK but the practicalities make it extremely difficult and in many case impossible.
Mike Clark
There are two reasons because there are not hens in the parks, aesthetic and charity.
Hens
are not suitable / appropriate for a public space and, maybe, hens are
not capable to survive out of the men's protection. Hens bear slavery
as a condition to live. But if hens, finally, can survive outdoors
without an specific food and in contact to predators, I wonder if we
have to considerer this fact like an evolution towards a new situation
or an in-evolution to their original being.
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that's really interesting Antonio.
Just
to let you know, the reason you have been waiting is simply that we
have been busy putting up the latest exhibition. I'm sure you
understand!
Love
Xxxxx
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Hi Antonio,
if it is possible to cancel the flights, we will be happy to pay the cancellation fee if that is possible.
Let us know if this is ok.
Speak soon
Xxxxx
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Hi xxxxx, Could you send me your tlf number I have a quite good solution
cheers
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+ 44 XXXXXXXXXXX
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Hi Dave... you are everywhere... I read you at UNTITLED....
Well, that’s my plan:
As I told you by phone I change the flight cost cancellation by a good time at Manchester.
So, could you pick me and my wife at Manchester airport Friday april 1st at 14:00 h.
spend your time talking to me, suggesting some visit and paying a night for us on a B&B?
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Hi Antonio,
I will pick you up at the airport.
I'm still looking for an appropriate b+b. If all else fails you can both stay at my house (we have a spare bedroom).
Xxxxx
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See you then
Thank you. You’re really kind
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HI XXXXX, SEE YOU TOMORROW AT 14:00 AT XXXXXXXXX AIRPORT !!!
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Hi xxxxx
It was a pity didn’t meet us at xxxxxxxxx,
But I’d like to say your man (xxxxx) was a perfect cicerone, he was really kind and we had a good time thanks to him.
The B&B was really charm... so, thanks a bunch.
Hopefully we’ll see next time.