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More-than-human songs, 2021

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The public announcement system of five villages in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, is broadcasting birdsongs and sounds of local bird species interpreted by human bird imitators. The species include the oriental magpie-robin, the white-rumped shama, the zebra dove, the common iora, the Eurasian tree sparrow, the golden-fronted leafbird, the Eurasian hoopoe, the plaintive cuckoo, the greater coucal, the common tailorbird, the yellow-eyed babbler, the red-whiskered bulbul, and others. The broadcasts of these more-than-human songs takes place twice a day, in morning and late afternoon, on the occasion of Butterflies Frolicking on the Mud: Engendering Sensible Capital, the Thailand Biennale, Korat 2021. The art intervention by artist Olafur Eliasson was made in collaboration with the bird imitators, Ronnakorn Thientongtaworn and Venus Janrew, and the local birds.

 

artworks, featured

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28.04.2021