Powder coated steel, polyester, wood, aluminium, epoxy clay, arduino, motor. 5 meters long.

Commissioned public art installation for Welcome Stranger in collaboration with Lefki Mevissen. Curated by Marianna van der Zwaag.

Welcome Stranger invites Amsterdam based artists to make new, temporary artworks on the facades of their homes. In doing so, they are revealing something personal in public space within their own neighbourhood. The facades create an environment for new observations, where every passer-by is welcome to experience strange encounters through different parts of the city.

Simon Wald-Lasowski has transformed his house into a cuckoo clock. Every half an hour a plump turkey emerges from the attic window and releases its long tongue, alongside a scream. Can’t face another sad salad! is a technically ingenious artwork that uses a playful, hallucinatory glitch to interrupt the logic of productivity, increasingly woven into daily life as Amsterdam undergoes increasing gentrification.

The ‘clock’ made daily appearances every 30 minutes between 10:00 and 18:00 during a 4 month period.