{"id":43,"date":"2004-05-23T13:09:24","date_gmt":"2004-05-23T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2015-07-11T13:26:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T02:26:51","slug":"elmgreen-dragsets-dying-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2004\/05\/23\/elmgreen-dragsets-dying-sparrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmgreen &#038; Dragset&#8217;s &#8216;Dying&#8217; Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/sparrow4.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/>An exhibition by two Scandanavian artists, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, is causing a bit of a stir at London&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/modern\/default.htm\">Tate Modern<\/a> gallery this month. In an otherwise empty new gallery space 25 metres by 7 metres, a sparrow is trapped between the panes of a double-glazed window, apparently dying. The sparrow is, however, animatronic. It cost &amp;pound12,000 and was made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crawley-creatures.com\/\">Crawley Creatures<\/a>, the company best known for the creatures in the BBC&#8217;s\/ABC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/dinosaurs\/default.htm\">Walking with Dinosaurs<\/a> series. The artists make a connection with the general demise of sparrows and that of London&#8217;s working class, though <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/3707075.stm\">other interpretations<\/a> have been made.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061001115333\/http:\/\/www.norway.org.uk\/culture\/criticscorner\/elmdragcc.htm\">A selection of reviews<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.london-se1.co.uk\/news\/view\/988\">30 second video of the animatronic sparrow<\/a><br \/>\nPictures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.london-se1.co.uk\/news\/images\/040513_sparrow.jpg\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/40144000\/jpg\/_40144035_sparrow_203.jpg\">2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The picture here is a woodcut from an early (1820 or so) chapbook, <em>An Elegy on the Death and Burial of Cock Robin<\/em> (York: J. Kendrew), reproduced in <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040923045743\/http:\/\/www.biblio.com:80\/books\/3422009.html\">The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book<\/a>, by Iona and Peter Opie, (ISBN: 0 19 869112 2).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><small>Who killed Cock robin?<br \/>\nI, said the Sparrow,<br \/>\nWith my bow and arrow,<br \/>\nI killed Cock Robin.<\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe he can&#8217;t afford to be so jaunty any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition by two Scandanavian artists, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, is causing a bit of a stir at London&#8217;s Tate Modern gallery this month. In an otherwise empty new gallery space 25 metres by 7 metres, a sparrow is trapped between the panes of a double-glazed window, apparently dying. The sparrow is, however, animatronic. 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