Rules for assembling a flock

Pigeons are provisional creatures. From their adopted urban habitats to their ever-changing ‘home-from-home’ but perhaps most provisional of all – their flocking. When flying, the flock is assembled (provisionally) based on a series of rules. These rules are not hierarchical but instead hold the flock in a self-organised criticality, a fragile interdependence which is vulnerable to change and collapse.(image: terraswarm, Brooklyn Pigeon Project) The flock is constantly reconfigured by the  movement of the birds at its fringes, who in a process known as peeling, become detached from the main body. These detachments provide and new and changing focus and gravitational centre for the flock; a community reassembled by a fluctuating set of circumstances.

Fancy That Issue 01/Blackpool

 fancy-that1a.pdf             fancy-that-folding-instructions.pdf 

Back to Provisional Construction

…Provisional construction consists in memories, in dreams, in stories. Memories, dreams and stories that will surely live and evolve long after the physical is gone…does that make them physical after all?

Signs of the times

“Our culture is so naked, we don’t have events to fall back on. So many times, I fall into things, and I feel like I wish I had somebody — or a story — to fall back on that would get me through this, that would explain this. I wonder what we will leave behind. It’s just the blink of an eye and we’re gone. What will people dig up?” Ray LaMontagne

A dictionary of Pigeons

1. any bird of the family Columbidae, having a compact body and short legs, esp. the larger species with square or rounded tails.

2. a domesticated member of this family, as one of the varieties of the rock dove.

3.Slang. a. a young, usually attractive, girl.

b. a person who is easily fooled or cheated; dupe.

4. Poker Slang. a card, acquired in the draw, that greatly improves a hand or makes it a winner.

5. archaic spelling of Pidgin.

6. Military Slang. An aircraft from one’s own side.

7. Slang One who is easily swindled; a dupe

8. An object of special concern; an affair or matter.

Interdependence

Chazz Michael Michaels: InterdependenceJimmy MacElroy: I don’t even know what that means.Chazz: Nodoby knows what it means…it gets the people going!