Nico Dockx – Parrot Parade

Parrot Parade by Nico Dockx
Nico Dockx's Parrot Parade, capturing their colours, character, spirit and charm through 220 unique perspectives and parrot voices.

Parrot Parade by Nico Dockx was created for the Parrot Pavilion, Kortrijk Triennial 2024: After Paradise (29 June 2024 - 6 October 2024). During the summer of 2024, the author invited 220 of his artist friends to contribute to this publication by sending him their “dialogue bubbles on the theme of parrots” by post. Nico Dockx is an Antwerp-based visual artist, curator, and researcher fundamentally interested in archives and structural processes (data, memory, distribution). His work, often collaborative, takes the form of interventions, publications, and installations that embody the relationship between perception and memory. He is also an educator at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, leading the ‘Expanding Academy’ project, which currently explores the notion of social sculpture through artistic interventions in the public square.

Nico Dockx (1974) is a visual artist, curator, publisher and researcher with a fundamental interest in archives and structural processes such as data, memories, information, distribution and management. His interventions, publications, texts, sounds, images, installations, performances and conversations — which are usually the result of collaborations with other artists — embody the relationship between perception and memory, which he interprets differently each time. Living in Antwerp, he is an educator at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, leading the multidisciplinary project Expanding Academy. The project currently focuses on the notion of social sculpture and the possibilities of opening up the academy towards its neighbouring public square through artistic interventions and happenings.

Specifications

Softcover
304 pages
14,8 x 18,7 cm
370g
Language: English

Published in October 2024
ISBN: 9789464002515