Multi-channel sound installation
Discovery Green Brown Promenade Winter 2019-2020
Lina Dib’s multi-channel sound installation at Discovery Green, Here and Now, focuses on movement. Part III of a sonic triptych, this installation expands her recent works North To South And Back and There Is No Going Back. The triptych focuses on the biological phenomenon of Zugunruhe, a word used to describe a certain kind of restlessness animals exhibit when they feel the compulsion to migrate. Here and Now is composed primarily of bird and human sounds and focuses on global migration. The choreographed sounds dance along the Brown Promenade in conversation with Pitaya’s sculptures. Here and Now points to Houston’s diversity and highlights ways that life on earth is marked by, and even sustained by, movement.
Special thanks to the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Taylor Knapps, Daniela Antelo, Siddharth Bharadwaj, Josan Pinto and Pitaya.
This soundtrack has been released into a limited edition of 5 boxes here.
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Press:
Dib, L. 2019. “Artist notes,” Discovery Green.
Gaines, T. 2019 “Magical Snowbirds Take Over Discovery Green in an Art Frenzy That Will Have You Seeing Double: A Wonderland for the Eyes and the Ears” Paper City, December 1.
Bagley, A. 2019. “Family Outing: Paloma bird event flies into Discovery Green,” Houston Chronicle, November 27.
Glentzer, M. 2019 “Discovery Green’s ‘Paloma’ takes flight with sound and light,” Houston Chronicle, November 26.
Delony, D. 2019. “200 glowing ‘origami’ birds have filled the trees at Discovery Green,” KHOU, November 26.
Tommaney, S. 2019. “10 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston,” Houston Press, November 21.