I Can’t Make Bird Noises

 

Participatory Project, Performance, Video, 2012

 

All birds like humans have regional dialect. In-fact birds regional dialect is more defined than our own, to the point that birds from different areas of the same country can not understand each other. This project aims to query the relationship between mans understanding of birds utterances, but also the crossing of regional dialects.

4 of the most common european birds were chosen as examples. individuals were shown an illustration of each bird and asked to utter the sound of each bird as they understand it.