Rebecca Beachy

Location: Chicago, IL
Website: http://www.rebeccabeachy.com

  

bone char

animal bones burned over wood fires
partial inventory: turtle, goat, deer, horse, cow, fox, birds
installation variable
2011

  

bone char

detail: charred goat skull, etc.

  

choreography for dust dispersal: 3 birds

2011

  

choreography for dust dispersal: 3 birds

  

flag: hawk dispersal

“Temporary Allegiance” exhibition, Gallery 400 cheesecloth mesh, grommets, hawk matter

2 hawks: found.
1 decomposing in median, I-57 mile marker 195
1 still warm on shoulder, I-57 mile marker 196 Illinois 2011

  

inventory - 3/2/2011

wooden tables, paper, organic matter (specified within inventory list)
2011

  

inventory - 3/2/2011

  

inventory - 3/2/2011 (detail)

cow skull remnant (horns)
gifted.
Columbus, Montana 2000
≤ 4 ¾ oz

  

inventory - 4/19/2011

inventory print, correlate to piles on tables
2011

  

birds nest pellets

found/gifted birds nests, processed & compressed
installation variable
2010, ongoing

  

17 Nov. 4:45 p.m. to 12 Dec. 10:30 a.m. 2010

100°
21 eggs, 21 days (metabolized into hair)
egg shells with cartons (≈63 dozen)
21 fertilized eggs, 21 days (incubation)

  

17 Nov. 4:45 p.m. to 12 Dec. 10:30 a.m. 2010 (video still: chicken hatch)

100°
21 eggs, 21 days (metabolized into hair)
egg shells with cartons (≈63 dozen)
21 fertilized eggs, 21 days (incubation)

  

found feathers, 3000 wasps

processed migratory birds: flicker, goose, woodpecker, vulture, misc. songbirds
installation variable
2010, ongoing

  

found feathers, 3000 wasps

detail: processed flicker feathers

  

found feathers, 3000 wasps

detail: 3000 ground wasps (1 tbsp=100 wasps)

  

feed the birds

plaster, tights, bird seed, tree branch
2009

  

feed the birds (performance still)

plaster, tights, bird seed, tree branch
legs doubled by wearing of bird-seed-filled tights
2009

  

hive head

wasp paper, microscope
2009

  

cheshire cat

taxidermed cat-skin marionette
Carolina Biological Supply cat, human baby teeth (teeth gifter pictured)
2009



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