On Wednesday the 20th of February  P7s and P5/6 went on a trip to the Mareel to see an art show called The Colony made by an artist called Dinh Q Lê. We went out on the 9:15am ferry when we got to the other side there was a bus waiting for us.

When we finally got to the Mareel we were greeted by two people called Amy and Jane they are the people who were in charge of the art exhibition. They then took us into the auditorium where the exhibition was –  before we went in we had to take off our shoes.

In the auditorium there were 3 big screens all showing different videos on them.The first screen had the old houses the workers used to live in, the second screen had a flock of birds on it and the last screen had the men harvesting the guano (bird poop). In the middle of the floor there was a big paper cut out of a island with paper nests on it, the last thing in the room was a cabinet with information in it . After we had watched all the videos on the screens they turned on the lights and we went back into the middle of the room to take a quiz.

The last thing we did was we had to pretend to be birds and fly around the room to find materials to decorate a nest on the island, they videoed us doing this so they could make another film.

We went back on the bus to catch the 12 ferry back in.

We had mixed feelings about the installation!

By Annie and Willam