I’m proposing an artwork presentation of the piece Decoy for the 2025 conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science”. It is part of my ongoing artistic research on language, translations, sound, mimicry, empathy and interspecies communication.
For the piece Decoy I study the languages of humans and other species and their connections, as well as interspecies communication and mimicry. I’ve studied decoy whistles used for hunting. I’ve built whistles that mimic the vocalizations of other animals, especially birds, from different mostly recycled materials and learned how to play them. Making instruments and learning to play them helps me to better study and understand sound as a phenomenon. I also explore the connection between mimicry and empathy, as well as the dark side of empathy; reading someone’s mind with the objective to harm them. In my own work I try to find the potential connection between species through empathy and mimicry.
The sound piece can be listened with the documentation of the piece at:
Decoy
2022
Installation; sound piece and whistles (wood, plastic, metal, ceramics, paper and reed)
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Ionian University
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