Barcelona
May 29 - September 2, 2001

Meeting Point was a public installation in the courtyard of the Palau de la Virreina situated in Barcelona's busiest pedestrian mall. The project was designed for the spaces of the historic building and was inspired in popular language and the physical connection between the Rambla and the Boqueria market, adjacent to the Baroque urban palace.

Meeting Point introduced the symbolism of the egg as a cetral axis, with four tables in the form of luminous arrows supported by cans of food as the cardinal points. The "egg" took the form of a seven-meter high coop, connected to the terrace of the upper courtyard by white garlands forming a pergola lit by yellow light bulbs. Hens, cocks and chicks lived together in the coop/tower, which referenced a "happy home," with dining table and chairs, sofa and a television set playing every fifteen minutes a video with the song Tengo una debilidad by Antonio Machin.

The installation also included a showcase with the Barcelona Eagle and Giants, as well as fifteen automatic vending machines dispensing a range of products, from fresh eggs to cava. Benches and tables, fitted with electrical sockets, computers and laptop eggboxes featured information about "Barcelona Art Report 2001 Experiences" triennale. The interaction of the installation guests--the humans and the animals--with each other and with advanced technology and information sharing was intended to form more than one single line of discourse: a meeting-point to eat and talk, to exchange and reflect, to enter or leave the market, to pass by or stop off, to rest or to act.

After the project's run the 5,152 cans of food that formed part of the installation were distributed to charity centers. The birds went back to a farm.