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Instinct Extinct: The Great Pacific Flyway
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 52, Number 1, 2019
- pp. 5-11
- Article
- Additional Information
ABSTRACT:
This article, or artist’s inquiry, was written in concert with the exhibition Instinct Extinct: The Great Pacific Flyway. Beginning with introductions to bird migration, the concept of global flyways and the history of conservation, the text considers the poetics of art-making relative to academic research. Areas of artistic exploration include a map depicting California’s changing waterscape, video portraits of people of the flyway and assemblages of invented and found avian artifacts. The article concludes with a review of current environmental conditions affecting migratory birds and some reflective passages.