Sick-Amour is an art installation by Joel Tauber that celebrates a lonely and forlorn Tree in the middle of a giant parking lot in front of the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena (CA, USA). The installation is comprised of 15 videos (there were 12 videos in the earlier version) and 15 interviews; and also includes, in its most complete form: a series of photographs, two giant earring sculptures for the tree, as well as golden leaf necklaces and fruitball earrings for Tauber and other tree lovers.
The 12-channel version of the installation has been shown at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (Los Angeles, CA, USA) as a video tree sculpture and at the Adamski Gallery (Berlin, Germany) as a sculpture of stacked monitors. It has been presented in a variety of other ways at numerous locations, including W139 (Amersterdam, Netherlands), the Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA, USA), the Nicolaysen Art Museum (Casper, WY, USA), the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum at California State University Long Beach (Long Beach, CA, USA), the O’Silas Gallery at Concordia College (Bronxville, NY, USA), the Haubrok Foundation (Berlin, Germany), the Asheville Art Museum (Asheville, NC, USA), 18th Street Projects (Santa Monica, CA, USA), and the Cypress College Art Gallery (Cypress, CA, USA).