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Ahead of a retrospective in Edinburgh, Nikki Bell and Ben Langlands talk about 30 years of collaboration, from building kitchens to avoiding live anti-personnel mines in the aftermath of the Afghanistan invasion - Scotsman.com News {...} Ahead of a retrospective in Edinburgh, Nikki Bell and Ben Langlands talk about 30 years of collaboration, from building kitchens to avoiding live anti-personnel mines in the aftermath of the Afghanistan invasion - IT BEGAN with a swearing parrot. In a pub in Kent, Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell struck up a conversation with the landlord about the cockatoo in its cage above the bar and its remarkable way with the English language. It kicked off a series of connections: the parrot belonged to a sailor whose ship was docked in Folkestone, which happened to be where the artists were headed to make a film for Folkestone Triennial.
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