Songs of Emerging Endangerment; Signal and Response Conversation

The closing reception of Songs of Emerging Endangerment, a sound installation by TJ Shin, features a conversation between Summer Kim Lee, Miljohn Ruperto (moderator), and Jacinda S. Tran. This program aims to offer perspectives from scholars and artists who engage with the historiography and construction of diasporic aesthetics and identities from the Asia-Pacific.  

Songs of Emerging Endangerment, a sound installation by TJ Shin, uses mimicry to map systems of global migration from the Asia-Pacific. The project features a 30-foot-tall sculptural air raid siren that projects a composition of imitated bird calls scheduled throughout the day. In an open call process, over 50 participants connected to regions along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway were asked to imitate the calls of endangered bird species that travel the world’s largest bird migratory path. Set to sound hourly from dawn to dusk, 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. At once a sonic rehearsal and social strategy, the installation invites reflection on the ways our urban spaces are shaped, and how our relationships to them might be reimagined.

Signal and Response: Conversation 
Co-presented with GYOPO
Sunday, February 22, 2026
2:00-4:00 PM
Los Angeles State Historic Park

Signal and Response is a two-part program series co-presented by Clockshop and GYOPO.

To RSVP: https://events.humanitix.com/songs-of-emerging-endangerment-signal-and-response-conversation