Belgian installation and performance artist Benjamin Verdonck has contributed an insight into two of his street art performances for Veronique Branquinho’s A#6. The first is entitled ‘The Great Swallow’ and includes an image by Sven Van Baarle of Verdonck’s outlandish feat in Brussels in May 2007 for the Bourse festival, in which he built a giant birds nest and attached it to the side of an office tower, and perched inside it himself for hours at a time. During his time in the nest, Verdonck staged the fall of a giant birds egg from several stories above street level.

The nest was built out of birch, willow and beech trees, cement, straw, sand and glue. Benjamin conducted extensive research prior to his nesting, measuring wind levels, fire precautions, and structural stresses. The spectacle was witnessed by thousands of passersby in Brussels, and has since been recreated in Rotterdam and Birmingham.

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The second page is dedicated to a performance he carried out on the main shopping strip of Antwerp in Belgium, called the Meir. Benjamin became a spectacle one afternoon when he decided that “shopping = fun” and he went to town in a beautiful suit by Veronique Branquinho, accessorised with a bright orange pumpkin on his head.