sound-based installation
parcel packaging, Royal Mail Tracking Label, 9-inch tweeter speaker, mimicked Common Tern bird-call
33 5/8” x 29 ½”x 13”
Ter[m]a hirundo: An Improper Address Twice, and Once
Over, 2024
Following a stumble while browsing the online inventory of a popular European audio equipment merchant, a catalogued item’s auto-correction/mistranslation read: “Common Term.” The product, a hand-crafted bird-call intended to synthesize the vocalizations of the common tern, a prolific gull-like seabird. In the algorithmic, and linguistic lapse, a humorous hope is teased out from the limitations and failures to recognize, contain, and precisely know. It is a welcomed fissure in traditions of taxonomic mastery and order.
Sporadically muttering and squawking, a tweeter speaker—housed in the package in which the instrument and speaker components were shipped—plays back the rehearsals of the mimicked voice. In the coincidental failures to connect, Ter[m]a hirundo: An Improper Address Twice, and Once Over seeks to establish new terms outside of our own logic through which intimate appreciations of difference and failure can be formed.
return to portfolio ︎︎︎
Following a stumble while browsing the online inventory of a popular European audio equipment merchant, a catalogued item’s auto-correction/mistranslation read: “Common Term.” The product, a hand-crafted bird-call intended to synthesize the vocalizations of the common tern, a prolific gull-like seabird. In the algorithmic, and linguistic lapse, a humorous hope is teased out from the limitations and failures to recognize, contain, and precisely know. It is a welcomed fissure in traditions of taxonomic mastery and order.
Sporadically muttering and squawking, a tweeter speaker—housed in the package in which the instrument and speaker components were shipped—plays back the rehearsals of the mimicked voice. In the coincidental failures to connect, Ter[m]a hirundo: An Improper Address Twice, and Once Over seeks to establish new terms outside of our own logic through which intimate appreciations of difference and failure can be formed.
return to portfolio ︎︎︎