In a posthumanist world where all beings are inter-connected and attributed the same ‘ontological dignity’, migration is a phenomenon that exists within this world as a common attribute.
Migratory birds are constantly on the move - just like them, humans are always in search for something.
In their journey, they don’t carry much, they have to find resources where they are. As humans, we must learn not to get attached to things.
In their journey, they don’t carry much, they have to find resources where they are. As humans, we must learn not to get attached to things.
What can we learn from birds? How we can deconstruct this gaze of otherness that dominates the human condition by observing non-human entities, specifically birds?
Democritus argues, that from the swallow we can learn how to build a house, and from the nightingales how to sing. Thus what can we develop or learn by observing the migration of birds, and their way of communicating?
And how can human technology provide translational interfaces for interspecies interactions?
And how can human technology provide translational interfaces for interspecies interactions?
Our paths were connected, can you hear them? tries to ask these questions to the visitors by creating an audiovisual experience where human voices are intertwined with the voices of birds. This garden of human and non-human voices is created by stories of displacement that are transformed into bird songs.