Performance
Premiere ”Reading, to Kins” | Hillside Projects
18 Jun 2021
Regular hours
- Fri, 18 Jun
- 19:00 – 20:00
Timezone: Europe/Berlin
- Language: English
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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.
About
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 König Museum in Bonn 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.
