JOHANNA HÄLLSTEN

Johanna Hällsten’s practice is often location-specific and she is interested in notions of translation and mediation occurring through duration within our relationship with the environment we inhabit. Here Hällsten offers us Speak Rhymes With Beak, a sculptural sound installation involving the ongoing development of teaching a Chinese language to a bird. As the narrative unfolds we find and unnerving and unnatural relationship between language and inter-species communication.

Image courtesy of the artist

Speak Rhymes with Beak

2006. log, seed, dome speaker and looped audio