PICA PICA
Intervention in Daily Newspaper
DEUTSCHE BÖRSE RESIDENCY, FRANKFURT/MAIN (GER) 2010
While in the Deutsche Börse Residency Program studio, I commissioned a Frankfurt jeweller to make a gold ring on March 21, 2011. The size and quality of the 750 gold ring are based on the production budget of the Deutsche Börse Residency Program. I place the gold ring in the territory of a pair of Frankfurt magpies (lat. pica pica). It is not clear whether a magpie, which, according to Dr Traulich of Frankfurt‘s Environmental Agency, ranks in our part of the world among the most intelligent varieties of songbird, will find the ring and hide it or put it into its nest. Another supposed reason magpies built shiny objects in their nests is that the sunlight they reflect provides warmth for their brood.
With the kind support of Dr Klaus Richarz, the zoologist, behavioural scientist and head of Hessen‘s ornithological centre.
On April 1, 2011, BILD Frankfurt Journal Frankfurt reported on the project in its 9th issue / 2011.
Year: 2011
Edition: BILD 130 364 / Journal Frankfurt 30 000
Available on April 1, 2011 at the newspaper kiosks in Frankfurt/Main
