10/25/2025 Los Angeles SHP
Songs of Emerging Endangerment
Name of Event: Songs of Emerging Endangerment
Date of Event: October 25, 2025
Time of Event: 2:00pm -4:00pm
Location of Event: 1245 N Spring St, LA CA 90012
Description of Event:
Link with full event info: https://clockshop.org/event/songs-of-emerging-endangerment-opening-reception/
Songs of Emerging Endangerment by artist TJ Shin, commissioned by Clockshop is a sound installation that uses mimicry to map systems of global migration from the Asia-Pacific. Over 50 participants connected to regions along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway imitate the calls of endangered bird species that travel the world’s largest bird migratory path. The project features a 30-foot-tall air raid siren that broadcasts a composition of these calls hourly from dawn to dusk. Birdhouse sirens, nicknamed after their appearance and once used as instruments of civic defense until 1985, can still be found throughout Los Angeles. Projected to hear the calls distinctly in proximity and faintly in distance, the work examines how mimicry—and the differences it produces in process and perception—both extend and transform instruments of the Cold War and their fields of power. The installation invites reflection on the ways our urban spaces are shaped, and how our relationships to them might be reimagined. Learn more on the project page.