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The ”Reading, to Kins” by Jonas Böttern from Hillside Projects at Museum Koening Bonn/DE is an intimate act for the vultures at the The Museum Koenig using a text by Arundhati Roy.
The Reading, to Kins by Hillside Projects (Stockholm/SE) took place on May 12, 2021 at Museum Koenig (Bonn/GER).
Jonas Böttern, from Hillside Projects, is reading the article We Are Witnessing a Crime Against Humanity by Arundhati Roy, published April 28, 2021 by The Guardian, to a committee of Indian vultures in the ornithological archive at Koenig Museum in Bonn/GER.
Reading, to Kins (2021) is a performance for the Dying and the Dead. Raspy, drawn-out hissing sounds along with grunting noises slowly fall silent. Painful swelling, inflammation and kidney failure. Millions of vultures in India have died this way, unintentionally poisoned with Diclofenac, a painkiller used to calm pain and increase the production of milk. For more than one hundred million years, vultures have been the custodians of the dead, living in a sympatric relationship with humans, each benefiting from each other’s interactions and doings.
This reading took place within the vulture collection at The Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum in Bonn/GER. With the intention of including the vultures in a conversation about the ongoings on their land (India), the recently published article We Are Witnessing a Crime Against Humanity by Arundhati Roy and published in The Guardian (29 April, 2021), was read to a wake of vultures. Roy’s article speaks of the current Covid and political situation in India, spring 2021.
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This work was made possible by the generous support of:
IASPIS, Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse, Konstakademin, Stiftung Kunst der Sparkasse in Bonn, Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland
Many thanks to Sibylle Feucht, curator and founderof the exhibition space DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+, for making this video possible as well as to Saviya Lopez, Yogesh Barve und Tushar Parab.
Credits:
Vidéographer: Robin Deutschbein
Edit, sound and direction: Hillside Projects
