The Conference of the Birds exhibition at Österängens konsthall, Jönköping.
Österängens konsthall and Jönköpings Fågelmuseum 1 June — 1 September 2024 The exhibition at Österängens konsthall and Jönköpings…
Tibutibuvihihehehiu – Live with the Blyth’s Reed Warbler
This essay unravels an intriguing encounter between a human musician, a Blyth’s Reed Warbler, and a devoted bird…
Followup: New designer-homes for urban kittiwake refugees.
A lot of amazing work has happened since our seminar in Tromsø in August 2023; Can people and…
Singing as numerous as space, measureless as noon 8. 11. 2024 – 2. 3. 2025
The exhibition Singing as numerous as space, measureless as noon at the Museum of Fine Arts, Liberec in…
How words can change the life of birds.
In her doctoral dissertation, literary historian Katri Aholainen examined Yrjö Kokko’s classic works on birds as a co-production…
Birds in Finnish literature
For the Winged Words Nest the Finnish literary scholar Karoliina Lumma has contributed with an essay that was…
Sensing Birdpoetic Worlds
Jessica Sunnebo’s 2023 thesis explores the poetry of Swedish poet Nina Södergren (1924–2015) through an ecocritical and animistic…
Chorus sinensis at Hanaholmen Cultural Centre
Chorus sinensis was exhibited at Hanaholmen Cultural Centre in Espoo, Finland 15. March – 1. September 2024. The…
Ahoo Ahoo – a film in the making
Selvær is an island of the Helgeland archipelago on the coast of North Norway. For centuries the islanders…
I-the Duck
Mesmerized by the magical qualities of eiderdown Eva is making an eiderdown suit inspired by the “sleeping pyjamas”…
Collaboration and contempt: Birds Eye Views
The Conference of the Birds is a transdisciplinary, polyphonic and socially engaged art project with collaborations between artists,…
Birds Eye Perspectives / Fugleperspektiver
How can art and science work together to make room for birds? In Norway, we have lost more…
Varelse / Værelse
31 August – 2 September 2023 in Gothenburg, Sweden Guided bird and landscape architecture walk and workshops in…
Mänttä Art Festival 2023
In the summer of 2023 Chorus sinensis was invited to show at Mänttä Arts Festival, one of Finland’s…
Kitty Wee Kitty Wee – an interspecies jam concert.
For a number of years, philosopher/artist/musician David Rothenberg has interacted with creatures great and small, from thrushes and…
Can people and birds be friends?
As part of the exhibition We love seagulls at Tromsø Centre for Contemporary Art in 2023, The Conference…
How can artists and more-than-human perspectives be included in future social planning?
As part of the symposium Can People and Birds be Friends in Tromsø Centre for Contemporary Arts Eva…
An endangered bird seeks refuge in the city
Tone Reiertsen, Researcher at NINA, talks about the kittiwake and why it has fled from the bird cliffs…
It’s all about coexistence
Artist Irene Kaltenborn talks about her work with the kittiwakes as climate refugees and asks: What is a…
Fuglan Veit – how can research, art, traditional knowledge and dialog be united?
Associate Professor Bente Sundsvold and Professor Anniken Førde from the University of Tromsø talk about the interdisciplinary seabird…
What kind of consideration and dialog do you have to have as an architect and designer when the customer is a bird and the client is a municipality?
Architect Kjeld Nash and artist Lawrence Malstaf talk about the process of planning, designing, communicating and mediating between…
How a book saved the whooper swans in Finland from extinction
PhD Katri Aholainen talks about her research and the impact art can have on bird conservation through the…
More-than-human art for endangered birds
Artist Kåre Grundvåg and artistic and general manager at Tromsø Centre for Contemporary Arts, Camilla Fagerli have together…
A bird worthy of a song
This is the beautiful text about the Great Cormorant written by researcher and literary scholar Karoliina Lumma for…
Equinox walk
On the 21.03 (at 4-7PM) Avian/Human invite you for an equinox walk that explores bird time and human…
Avian/Human Events in Copenhagen
The Conference of the Birds is unfolding between February and May in the Dome of Life at Island…
Andefågeln – Becoming Spirit Bird
Participatory performance transforming bodies to the inner spirit bird As a part of the event The city with…
BRING BACK BIRDS
Design workshop educating on birds of the past, present and the future via designed communication tools and embodied…
The video Staden med ett fågelperspektiv
Staden med ett fågelperspektiv (The city with a bird’s eye view, Swedish and English speech)Ulrika Jansson, Kristina Meiton,…
The city with a bird perspective
In Göteborg, the Conference of the Birds focuses on Frihamnen, a part of the former industrial harbor that…
Pori Art Museum
Chorus sinensis was exhibited at Pori Art Museum in Finland from 17th June – 25th September 2022. Here…
Staden med ett fågelperspektiv
(This event in Göteborg is in Swedish only) 30/9 kl 13-16.30 – SEMINARIUM Norges hus, Skånegatan 16, Göteborg…
Docks, down and ducks at sea!
(This was originally posted on the Eyes As Big As Plates blog after their stay at Selvær.) For…
Ahoo ahoo – welcome to Selvær!
Finally The Conference of the Birds made it to Selvær, an island in the Træna archipelago and home…
Eiderducks and people sharing cultures
As part of the Conference of the Birds recidency on Selvær we presented our artistic and scientific work…
The Chorus sinensis exhibition world premiere
The Chorus sinensis exhibition’s world premiere takes place at Pori Art Museum from 17 June to 25 September 2022. This is…
Koster island walk
In June 2021 the project in Koster started out with a meeting and a walk looking at the…