BIRD SANCTUARY (2019)
6-channel audio inside an empty sound isolating glass cube, earbuds, omnidirectional microphones connected to a pair of headphones for listening inside the glass cube.
Bird Sanctuary plays with the idea of performing “nature”. Disconnected audio samples are enclosed inside a glass cube and listened again by eavesdropping into the cube. Glass cube seals something inside and limits something out. We are spectators outside, looking and listening into a glass box containing plastic earplugs making sounds mimicking natural soundscapes.
Bird Sanctuary addresses empathy through the absence of familiarity. “Nature” is artificially brought inside the cube, but at the same time everything natural is clearly absent and there is nothing in particular on display.
Exhibited at Solu Space, Helsinki 2019.