Parking Spaces For Important Visitors

In the Oceania exhibition, 2004.


Parking Spaces For Important Visitors
Performance during the opening, 1 January 2002, where Sen made 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). Photo: Marianne van Kerkhoff

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.

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

Pukako in the Oceania exhibition, 2004. Weka in the Oceania exhibition, 2004.

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.