Big Bird is a 6m tall sculpture made of polystyrene and fibre glass that’s specifically designed to cover viewers in colourful slime.
This large-scale sculpture was first commissioned by The Secret Garden Party - a four day annual gathering in Cambridgeshire, England. A unique arts and music festival that’s founded on audience participation and encourages irreverence in an engaging environment.
The idea was to explore the superstition where a bird shits on your head it brings you good luck. The goal was to orchestrate the biggest ever group ‘gunge' and to help the people in attendance ‘get lucky’. To make the biggest shit, you need the biggest bird.
Big Bird was sampled off the streets of Sesame by Hungry Castle, broken bad and engineered to shit pink, organic slime to the sound of Kylie Minogue’s “I should be so lucky” (3:28) This collaborative project featured sculptor Aden Hynes and the UK’s finest Speedy plumbers.
Forecasts for the psychedelic shit storm varied as the anticipation grew to a frenzy. Some participants dared to pose underneath the 3m tall legs for a bird’s-ass view selfie. The shit hit the fans after crowds began pelting Big Bird with water bombs. He responded by illuminating the skies with slime with 30’000 people getting lucky in the process!