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- Title
SENSE & SENSES.
- Authors
Novak, Marlena; Yim, Jay Alan
- Abstract
localStyle’s projects explore how territories and boundaries — whether physical or intangible — are constructed, interpreted, and negotiated, via themes as varied as issues of trespass, the mating behavior of hermaphroditic marine flatworms, the sonification of electric fish from the Amazon, and experimental Eurasian blackbird grammar. In one of the three works presented in the symposium, Naming Things — inspired by Borges’ fictive encyclopaedia and Foucault’s response — combines field footage, 3D animation, and recorded performances with animal-derived objects. As one of the Borgesian tactics that Naming Things emulates, existing fauna are juxtaposed with invented organisms into a fictitious codification whose credibility invites interrogation of how culturally specific systems of categorization and knowledge are imposed and perpetuated. A second project, Bird is an intervention into the avian cultural practice of European Blackbirds’ song production (deploying a virtual bird creating new songs using real blackbird lexemes), as well as an anthropocentric appreciation of their virtuosic singing, via an interactive moving-image installation. Finally, in the interactive interspecies sound installation scale, attributes such as consciousness and agency became ethically amplified. Working with live animals, the necessity of mediating the creatures’ habitat marked a critical difference between direct presentation (in scale) and the representation of the non-human actor (in Bird and Naming Things).
- Subjects
BIRDSONGS; HUMAN-animal relationships; EUROPEAN blackbird
- Publication
Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, 2016, Issue 37, p40
- ISSN
1756-9575
- Publication type
Article