Update / Birds on the Wire at Zwitschermaschine, the group exhibition “Birds, Models, Plastic Songs” by Groundless

“Birds on the Wire” is on view this weekend at @zwitschermaschine as part of “Groundless – Birds, Models & Plastic Songs.”

Özcan Ertek – Birds on the Wire
– interactive sound installation –
Bird spikes, contact mics, MAX, audience, speakers

Dreaming of a world where interspecies conflict gives way to cohabitation, the work reimagines bird spikes as a sound artefact. The work speculates on how defensive architecture might be reclaimed by the species it targets—pigeons. The installation diffuses recorded pigeon sounds, reabsorbs them via contact mics, and projects them back into the space—allowing visitors to experience the material as a vessel for sonic exchange. Visitors are also invited to activate new timbres from the spikes, rethinking the boundaries between hostility and cohabitation.

@ozcanertek
Özcan Ertek is a Berlin-based sonic and media artist whose work explores how sound, motion, and material systems shape perception and interaction.

Media arts collective @groundless.group plays with the media of a changing world. photo 1, 2 by @cihankucuk_ photo 3 by @abdull4hkilinc