The visual strategy of Michael Danner and Vanessa Karré's Birds of Passage project functions between art and vandalism. A hybrid of illustration, drawing, wheatpasting, graffiti and photography, it's street art crossed with land art crossed with performance. Yet pasting the painted, drawn, plotted ratite and its long, far-reaching legs is an anonymous action, with no signature but the bird itself.
An endangered species, the bird's natural enemies include the rain, the janitor and the souvenir hunter. It's a highly time-based art form, ephemeral. It needs the camera as keeper, a guardian eye to transform a fleeting occurrence into an enduring image.
Friedrich Weltzien, Weissensee Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin
