The making of Golden Warriors

Title: The making of Golden Warriors

Year: 2000 - 2006

Measures: Variables

Technique: Video installation on 3 channels, video MiniDV (black-and-white, sound)

Duration: 9’26”

This work explores the relationship between pigeons, migratory birds and their caregivers, between the heavens and the ceilings of these inhabitants of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which is in charge of caring for them, feeding them, and, in addition, they venture in to let them fly and anticipate his return. The installation reveals a practice/game of urban in 3 scales concurrent: metropolitan, building, and palomar. The game starts each time that a caregiver check their pigeons to fly, a proposition is open and spontaneous. When we see it, others respond by casting to fly theirs. The dance of clouds of birds that we see on the skyline (skyline) of Manhattan is the confrontation between multiple caregivers, winning that retrieves the pigeons own over a few of the others. This practice continues to play despite the forced displacement carried out by gentrification. The sound of the installation is a collage of excerpts from dialogues of the movie On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan (1954), in which an allusion is made to the code of the keeper of pigeons.