Collective Feeding

In 2014, Dutch authorities began to kill a small population of house crows (corvus splendens) near the Port of Rotterdam. The crows likely arrived from Sri Lanka around 1994 as stowaways on a commercial container boat. Apparently, international trade in a country is now understood to be the most reliable predictor of the number of introduced species found there. The house crows were all killed, except for one that found shelter in a Dutch apartment.

11th Shanghai Biennale

For the 11th Shanghai Biennale RAQS invited me to show Song for Ghost Travellers and Fossil Records. What an amazing experience and fascinating exhibition! Very happy to have met so many new artists, curators, writers and most of all friends. I

Fossil Records (2015)

Fossil Records is a reconstruction of the sounds emitted by a fossilised insect. By creating a digital model of a highly detailed fossil’s stridulatory file its sound was made to come alive again and was then printed on a playable steel/copper disk in reference to the Golden Record on NASA’s voyager space probe: A record playing sounds from millions of years ago – in symmetry to a future civilisation discovering the Voyager space probe millions of years from now.

Human Use of Human Beings (2013)

Curated by Charles Carcopino Co-Produced by Lille3000, Seconde Nature, La Gare Numérique (Jeumont), Le Manège (Mons), DICRéAM (CNC) and Arcadi shown at Festival VIA Maubeuge, Festival Exit Paris, Gare St. Sauveur Lille, Seconde Nature Aix-en-Provence robotic installation In his 1950

“A Tentative Call to the Other” at Sound Reasons Festival in Hauz Khas, New Delhi

For Ish Sherawat’s Sound Reason Festival, Ali and I showed our multichannel sound installation A Tentative Call to the Other from MAM in Paris, in an adaptation for the What’s Up Bharat Gallery in Hauz Khas, New Delhi. What a