P002 → Starlings : Leaflets
I compare starling murmuration and footage of the evacuation leaflets airdropped over the Gaza Strip in the last year and a half in this 2-channel projector and sound installation.
Project and site made in collaboration with Bryce Wilner
in Web Projects 23S.
See Companion Site Here
This site acts as a companion to the audio/video installation below.
Channel 1: Footage of leaflets with evacuation messages
airdropped by IOF over gaza oct-dec 2023, from various
news sources. Looped 52 seconds.
Channel 2: Footage of starling murmuration, from Israeli
wildlife videographer, Yuval Dax. Looped 1 min 51 seconds.
In the Channel 1 video, lines of a poem appear periodically
as a caption
at the bottom of the screen, in Arabic script
and English type. The poem,
by Palestinian Poet, Marwan Makhoul,
is as follows:
In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political
I must listen to the birds
and in order to hear the birds
the warplanes must be silent.
This is one of the first works where I have been able to share with comrades at long distance, so that it can be installed without my presence so long as one has the appropriate space and 2 good projectors. Most recently it was shared at Junction Arts & Media in White River Junction, VT, as part of the screening and panel of No Other Land (2024) at White River Indie Film Festival 2025. Kindly reach out if you are interested in displaying this piece.
Details for install:
It exists in a white-walled room, at a
minimum length of 15 feet and width of 12 feet. At the back
of the room exists 2 projectors that face the front wall, and each have a corresponding speaker placed on the floor,
connected by a wire that runs toward the front corners of
the room, on each respective side. The speakers face inward
toward the center of the room.
The videos projected are overlayed flush atop eachother;
at full resolution (1920x1080), the length of the projection
displayed should be at least 8 feet, about a foot or less off
the ground. In some installations, this may be projection
mapped to the edges of the front wall, at modified resolution.