11th Shanghai Biennale

A neuroscientist, a dancer, a pigeon fancier and a string trio connect neuronal patterns in the brain with patterns in bird flocks, dance, music and language : “neuromancer meets ornithomancer”.

Song for Ghost Travellers is a score for twelve pigeons and three musicians. Inspired by the Chinese tradition of attaching spherical flutes to pigeons, this performance explores ideas of chance and structure through patterns of flying birds and movements of trains inside a railway station.

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.