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Article: Henrik Hakansson: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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- Artforum International
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- October 1, 2006
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Swedish artist Henrik Hakansson, who gained attention in the 1990s for organizing a techno rave for the benefit of twenty-odd frogs (Frog For e.s.t. [eternal sonic trance], 1995) and amplifying the sound of chirping crickets to concertlike volume levels (The Monsters of Rock Tour, 1996) has lately turned his talents to documenting the Spix's macaw, one of the world's most endangered birds. "Henrik Hakansson: Cyanopsitta spixii Case Study #001," Hakansson's US solo museum debut, was dedicated to turning the macaw's extinction in the wild into a multimedia project layered with innumerable disturbing and provocative facts about this particular feathered friend and, of ...