I’ll Bring You Flowers
2012 – ongoing
Audio, 60 min loop, text, flowers
Dimension variable
They Are Here (founded in 2006) is a collaborative practice steered by Helen Walker (1979) and Harun Morrison (1981). Their work can be read as a series of context-specific games. The way one enters, is invited to or participates in the game can be as significant as its conditions or structure. They seek to create ephemeral systems and temporary micro-coalitions that offer alternate means of engaging with a situation, history or ideology. In parallel, they initiate open-ended multi-year projects that become generative spaces for further works. They Are Here are currently based in London and on the River Lea.
In April 2012, a classified advert in a Russian-language newspaper printed in England was brought to their attention. Translated, it read: ‘Everyone needs to eat and to occasionally present flowers. For both you need money. I don't have money because I don't have a job. Help me find a job and you'll be presented flowers.’ Charmed by the poetry of the ad, Walker and Morrison subsequently met its author, Dainis, a Latvian in his fifties who has been living in London since 1999. For Survival Kit 10.1, They Are Here extend a long-running series of exchanges with Dainis. In this project, art commissions and funding grants are rechanneled as paid work for Dainis, and this rechannelling simultaneously doubles as an artwork – a work for which They Are Here receive flowers.
theyarehere.net