for the birds — Melinda Ring

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for the birds, 2009, Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angeles
photographs: Ann-Marie Rounkle

for the birds, 2009, Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angeles
photograph: Melinda Ring

for the birds, 2009, Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angeles
photographs: Ann-Marie Rounkle

for the birds, 2009, Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angeles
photograph: Sarabeth Puusemp

for the birds, 2009, Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angeles
photograph: Bob Branaman

day #4 Elementary Psychedelia, for the birds, 2009, Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angeles
photographs: Ann-Marie Rounkle

day #12 do geese see god, for the birds, 2009,
Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angeles

video still, day #3 wherein the birds enjoy Aretha Franklin, for the birds, 2009,
Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angeles

day #21 Farewell Lunch Party, for the birds, 2009,
Melinda Ring Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angeles
photograph: Melinda Ring

day #21 Farewell Lunch Party, for the birds, 2009
Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angeles
photographs: Sarabeth Puusemp

for the birds is the first collaborative work of choreographer Melinda Ring and artist Jennifer Nelson. The artists lived in the gallery with twenty-one birds for twenty-one days, and attempted with all sincerity, to create art and choreography that is “for the birds.”

January 18 - February 7, 2009
Opening Orientation: January 18
Farewell Lunch Party: February 7
Daily Feedings 1:30pm

The Box
Los Angeles, CA
Mara McCarthy, director
Hilary Graves, gallery assistant

With the participation of: Brian Getnick, David Auerbach, Hilary Graves, Joanne Yee, Kira Vollman, Mara McCarthy, Penny Folger, Suzan Averitt

Press Release
Project Page - Movement Research Performance Journal #35 Fall 2009
Review - Artillery
Video - Day 17, lower monitor