Ten Green Bottles

Ten Green Bottles is a piece of performance art that includes a 1970s notion of ‘Activism’. A group of people in Spitalfields market are all standing in huge bottles as if protesting. The bottles look like riot shields. Mysteriously as they sing along, they are ‘taken out’ by the artist armed with a long broom.The video is a piece of conceptual art, it is a simple action but with a darkness. When the participants fall, they look as if they are in coffins. The inevitability of destruction and end of the planet via consumerism is hinted at. The song is a traditional nursery rhyme – which may be known also in Germany. The artist knocks out one of the singers as they complete each verse.