Parking Spaces For Important Visitors

In the Oceania exhibition, 2004.


Parking Spaces For Important Visitors
Performance during the opening, 1 January 2002, where Sen attached these labels and painted the 'spaces'.
The piece remained for the rest of the month long exhibition.

The Performance:

Parking Spaces
For
Important Visitors

by Sen McGlinn (workman), Jacqueline Wassen (made the panels) & Sonja van Kerkhoff (concept + retouching).

Parking Spaces For Important Visitors in the In The Woods exhibition,
Millfied House Arts Centre, Millfied Garden, North-east London, U.K., July-August 2004.
The text placed beside the birds is in large type on this page.

They are an odd collection, these New Zealand natives. They don't look important. Most are small, and flee any sort of human activity. They are odd and different. In the Oceania exhibition, 2004. Ruru is a type of owl yet different to any European owl. Piwawaka, however never trusted

Te Wa (The Space) Gallery, Drews Ave, W-h-anganui, January 2002. The row of tiny rectangular shapes under the window is the work: Parking Spaces for Important Visitors Pukako is like a hen and so is weka. When I sat very still by the creek as a child, they ignored me. Pukako in the Oceania exhibition, 2004.

me. She only spread her fan-like tail at a safe distance, on the highest branches.

Weka in the Oceania exhibition, 2004.

And kiwi, such a strange bird, so shy and so dull-looking. So grey. He's our most famous of all. These birds are not refugees, but if space is made, these visitors will also come to visit.

Children doing an exercise about this work in the Oceania exhibition, 2004.

Side view of Parking Spaces For Important Visitors, installed in the In The Woods show in Millfield Garden, north east London, July-August 2004.