Environmeltal Artwork
How can humans be compared to cuckoos?
How do environments change? At what stage of different environmental changes are we now? What are we able to perceive about these changes, and what are we blind to?
Isaac Cordal and Antonio Arosa’s public art work Nest Parasite consists of small-scale figures placed inside birdhouses attached to trees and built during community workshops.
In the work, a businessman figure takes on the role of a nest parasite*: the human figure quietly settles into a space that was not originally his own. In this way, the work reflects phenomena resembling gentrification** on a small, domestic and nature-oriented scale.
The work explores the subtle displacement of nature by human-built structures and ways of operating.
LOCATION: Ankkuripuisto
TIME: Throughout the festival
AGE RECOMMENDATION: Suitable for all ages
ACCESSIBILITY: The artwork is located in a park area and is wheelchair accessible.
*Nest parasitism: a reproductive strategy used by birds (such as the cuckoo, which also creates a connection to the name of Kucku University!) in which a bird lays its eggs in another bird’s nest, displacing its offspring.
**Gentrification: originally, the increase in the value of less expensive residential areas resulting from the gradual migration of more affluent populations into the area.
Isaac Cordal (b. 1974, Galicia) is a sculptor and street artist trained at the University of Fine Arts in Pontevedra. He is known for Cement Eclipses, a project of small-scale cement figures installed in public spaces worldwide, critiquing the social, political, and environmental alienation of contemporary society.
Antonio Arosa (b. 1981, Galicia) has lived and worked in Lapinjärvi, Finland, since 2019. Trained at the University of Pontevedra with an Erasmus exchange at Kuopio Academy of Design, his practice centers on painting — abstract compositions and a personal figurative mythology in watercolor. In 2020 he founded Landart Lapinjärvi, a forest-based project creating ephemeral structures from natural materials that vanish with time and weather.
