A giant bird's nest hangs high up on the glass facade of an ultra-modern building in the British city of Birmingham and inside is the artist -- Belgian Benjamin Verdonck. The nest of the "Great Swallow" made of 198 pounds of cement, 132 pounds of sand, 12 buckets of glue with authentic branches of birch, willow and oak, is part of a week of art shows and installations in Britain's second largest city. "A swallow builds its nest in two weeks, I needed three months," Verdonck said on his Internet site before setting up in his nest.So he's dumber then a bird?
The street-theatre actor will perform from his nest for the people on the street 98 feet below and plans to stay in his nest for a week.
Unless maybe he falls out? And wouldn't that be
Verdonk prefers performing for the general public, far from the traditional theatres, and has a company with the provocative slogan: "the pop singers' breasts are not real".
He could call it "Thank God the artist finds saps to bankroll him and doesn't have to find a real job".
The Belgian actor had already used the "Giant Swallow" in the heart of Brussels last year. In 2002 he used his artistic talents in a protest against the war in Iraq with an installation where he spent three days in a cage under the title "I like America and America likes me".
There's some Americans that think you're a friggin idiot. And I'm one of them...