Seattle Weekly, May 6, 1992

Visual Arts

SPOTLIGHT

Debla and Kurt Geissel-

No Control. This playful and annoying istallation at the Two Bells Tavern comprises a series of pink and blue dimestore birdcages hanging form the ceiling directly above the tavernss eight tables. The two cages Titled Baby Crow at the front of the tavern are filled with two large opaque fiberglas eggs with little eletrical motors insid their shells that emit caws while jerking and rattling around like newborn crows clamoring to break out of their cages. Six cages titled TV Eggs, hanging along the left wall, are filled with six large pink and blue eggs with small squares cut into their shells fitted with miniatrue TV nonitors hooked up to the bars VCR playing an endless loop of bird videos. You cant really see or hear much through all the commotion, thats the point, those embedded monitors are just another layer of media obfuscation in our alread oversaturated and confused world -Greg Schnieder