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Posted On: April 15th 2025, 01:53 pm
𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙛𝙩 (𝙖 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠)
2025
site-specific architectural intervention
lumber, pigeon trap doors, aluminum security fencing, bird migration window film, natural light, unregistered futurity ID bands
𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙛𝙩 (𝙖 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠) was a site-specific installation at @narsfoundation, featuring dovecote-inspired architecture, a window intervention, natural light interactions, and unregistered ID bands.
In competitive pigeon racing, thousands of birds are gathered and transported more than 500 kilometres north, where they are released from designated racing stations to embark on an hours-long flight back home.
Dovecotes, or pigeon houses, have long symbolized the interspecies relationship between humans and pigeons—structures that have existed for over a millennium across the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. Doubling as spectator gallery seating, the sculpture is accented by "bob wire" trap doors—unidirectional mechanisms which pigeons push through to trigger the "finish line" timing device during a race.
Installed on the gallery window were bird navigation and anti-collision decals, which, throughout the day, refracted a travelling prismatic light across the gallery floor. Before sunset, the light would briefly enter the structure before continuing its path again back outside.
Though still not fully understood, pigeons use magnetoreception—the ability to sense the Earth's magnetic fields—to triangulate their location and "calculate time" as part of their homing instinct. In this way, murmuration can be considered a kind of living GPS network.
On the gallery windowsill, a cluster of unregistered "futurity bands" rested in wait. These electronic ID tags are typically purchased before a racing pigeon is born and later used for tracking during training and competition. Here, the unregistered bands served as a symbol of potential freedom—an escape from the race-in-reverse’s predestined loop of eternal return. Visitors were invited to take a band from the exhibition, "releasing" it back into the world.
Deep gratitude to @jaredrishikof for playing a key role in fabricating the dovecote sculpture.
2025
site-specific architectural intervention
lumber, pigeon trap doors, aluminum security fencing, bird migration window film, natural light, unregistered futurity ID bands
𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙛𝙩 (𝙖 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠) was a site-specific installation at @narsfoundation, featuring dovecote-inspired architecture, a window intervention, natural light interactions, and unregistered ID bands.
In competitive pigeon racing, thousands of birds are gathered and transported more than 500 kilometres north, where they are released from designated racing stations to embark on an hours-long flight back home.
Dovecotes, or pigeon houses, have long symbolized the interspecies relationship between humans and pigeons—structures that have existed for over a millennium across the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. Doubling as spectator gallery seating, the sculpture is accented by "bob wire" trap doors—unidirectional mechanisms which pigeons push through to trigger the "finish line" timing device during a race.
Installed on the gallery window were bird navigation and anti-collision decals, which, throughout the day, refracted a travelling prismatic light across the gallery floor. Before sunset, the light would briefly enter the structure before continuing its path again back outside.
Though still not fully understood, pigeons use magnetoreception—the ability to sense the Earth's magnetic fields—to triangulate their location and "calculate time" as part of their homing instinct. In this way, murmuration can be considered a kind of living GPS network.
On the gallery windowsill, a cluster of unregistered "futurity bands" rested in wait. These electronic ID tags are typically purchased before a racing pigeon is born and later used for tracking during training and competition. Here, the unregistered bands served as a symbol of potential freedom—an escape from the race-in-reverse’s predestined loop of eternal return. Visitors were invited to take a band from the exhibition, "releasing" it back into the world.
Deep gratitude to @jaredrishikof for playing a key role in fabricating the dovecote sculpture.
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