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At public lecture events, Dr Uew Westphal introduces himself to audiences with a skylark bird call. What could be better for an architectural forest of column han people filling the space for an hour with the sound of birds?
Most of my collaborations are not one-off events. They are long term, repetitive collaborative interdisciplinary art experiences, like working with extraordinary scientists, like Dr Uwe Westphal. Dr Westphal does not like to lecture in English when teaching about biology. Instead he speak bird. Speaking bird suited this festivals site-specific, shared exhibition environment designed by international architect David Chipperfield, whose intervention “Sticks and Stones”, consisting of 144 tree trunks set on a grid echoing the architecture structure, was installed in the Mies vander Rohe’s masterpiece the New National Gallery.
For the 2015 edition of the future now festival, I wanted to structurally echo my pedagogic role at the Institute for Spatial Experiments. I also wanted to continue my continued discursive action based sonic ecology based research projects into public animals that human share public spaces with, in particular birds, wild boars, dogs and dog dirt.
This project directly informs my interest in landscape, landscape, and sound ecology, including the art of Foley, which I teach in Visualizing Ecological Processes (time-based landscape architecture media courses), and my sonic work in segregation, like Toolshed*.
I work with uncanny bird people, even for bird people. Dr Graham Burnett professor of the history of science at Princeton is one such person. David is one of the mysterious founders of a secret society of international scholars that refer to themselves as the “Order of the Third Bird”*. I am not officially a “bird” myself, but have published two of their extremely fine-tuned overtly overly-critical pieces of uncanny scholarship (Some Pigeons are more Equal the Others; MODELS, 306090), have curated at least three ‘bird’ events for students and in art exhibitions (Radical Imagination Community; Institute for Spatial Experiment). In 2020, I also wrote potential editors a personal letter of support from my perspective as an editor having worked repeatedly with the Order of the Third Bird, which played a small role in the 768 page book published in 2021 (heavy bird).
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