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THE CHANGE IN PATTERNS A PARÁBOLA DO PROGRESSO AL CONJURO DE ESTE CODIGO WEATHER ENGINES
GOLDEN TONE in WEIMAR and ERFURT
 UMBRALES CRITICAL ZONES FLUIDE REALITÄTEN BIRDS AND BUOYS SÜDSTELLIUM AGROPOETICS FIRE, FAÍSCA, FUNKE DISAPPEARING LEGACIES
MARLENE VULTURE CINE LIANA HUMO SOBRE HUMEDALES GOLDEN TONE MANIOK REIBE ICH DIR, SCHWESTERCHEN HIGHWAY BR-163 CUIABÁ - SANTARÉM MERCADÃO 2000 FOREST FLAME SELF-PORTRAIT BRAZILWOOD THE OPEN FOREST ARARA TROPIC MATTERS SEEING THE EVER-GARDEN EFFECT DARK HORSE VICTORIA AMAZONICA REPRESENTATIVES BETWEEN THE STREET AND THE HILL, A GARDEN THE JUNGLE IS THE HEAD EDUCATION BY THE STONE THE WEIGHT OF THE MANGROVE URUBÚ HAS DRIED LEGS SWEAT
QUALÉ, MANÉ? THIRD CINEMA 12 STEPS AND A HOLE IN THE VALLEY SITUATED KNOWLEDGES, GLOBAL ECOLOGIES
SENEGAMBIA BLEIBT UNKNOWN UNIVERSITY THE HAIRY GODDESS MISSTORY MYSTERY-BOUFFE ADAPTATION 230 000 cm UNTITLED (HOMAGE TO PIRANESI) NEUKÖLLN PARADISE
Chile International II DESILHA 3 BLUE CANARY FIRE, FAÍSCA, FUNKE THE ENDOTIC READER N.1 THE GARDENER, THE RUBBER TAPPER AND THE HERBALIST THE EVER-GARDEN EFFECT: PUBLICATION 230 000 cm HUMAITÁ
LATEX - ICI BERLIN DESILHA 2021 BÄRENZWINGER - TAZ BÄRENZWINGER - ARTIST TALK WITH PAZ GUEVARA SÜDSTELLIUM - TAZ ZKM - TERRESTRIAL UNIVERSITY BERLINISCHE GALERIE BERLIN ART LINK SEVEN CROSSROADS AGROPOETICS AT SAVVY CONTEMPORARY
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BARBARA MARCEL
BLUE CANARY

2021, Berlin / Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Harz. Original essayistic text written in collaboration with the geographer Andreas Döpke, to be published in the book THESE BIRDS OF TEMPTATION, as part of the series intercalations 6, co-published by K. Verlag and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.


The project GOLDEN TONE comes from a research on the historical, cultural landscape of the western Harz Mountain region of Germany, where many of the mining technologies of mineral soil extraction were first developed and then exported to the whole world. The essay reflects on the intersections of past, present and future of this anthropogenic landscape, through the particular history of breeding, training and trading of Canary birds in the region.

"...a queer refrain, populated with both acoustical lines of flight and the sorrows of captivity, wherein the reader-as-exhibition-viewer learns that the minor science of ornithology is as preoccupied with the flirtations and allopreening of avifauna as it is with their taxonomical domination."

THESE BIRDS OF TEMPTATION. With contributions by Ari Bayuaji, Bik Van der Pol, David Bonter, Bertolt Brecht, Lêna Bùi, Mark Dion, Andreas Döpke & Barbara Marcel, Anne Geene & Arjan de Nooy, Sophia Gräfe, Mary Ellen Hannibal, Lisa Hirmer, Nina Katchadourian, Anna-Katharina Laboissiere, Anaïs Nin, Megan Shaw Prelinger, Bruno Schulz, Anna-Sophie Springer, Frank Steinheimer, Anna Tsing, Etienne Turpin, and others.

Click here for more info on the book THESE BIRDS OF TEMPTATION


2021, THESE BIRDS OF TEMPTATION. Cover of the book co-published by K. Verlag and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.


The essay was further developed into a 4-channel video installation (approx. 120min) named "GOLDEN TONE". In a video assemblage made of hands and machines, silver and serinettes, contaminated heavy metal hills and falling spruce trees, touristic tours and intimate interviews, the iconic landscape of the German Harz gradually reveals its many hybrid layers, giving way to an open field of transformative sonic flights. GOLDEN TONE is about the Harz Roller Canaries, domesticating mines and queering nature.

Click here for more information on the project GOLDEN TONE.


The video installation has recently been part of the exhibition Birds & Buoys at Bärenzwinger Berlin, between April and June 2021.

Click here for more information on the exhibition BIRDS & BUOYS.
© 2021 Barbara Marcel