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Podcast: EMPIRE LINES
Episode: Avi-Alarm, Hanna Tuulikki (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Invasion Ecology)
Description: Artist Hanna Tuulikki connects plantation landscapes in Finland, Scotland, and across the South West of England, making kin across species and with birds.
Glasgow-based artist, composer, and performer Hanna Tuulikki considers ‘reworlding’ in times of planetary crisis. Avi-Alarm (2023), a collection of augmented reality filters for social media, transforms the faces of user-participants into hybrid human-avian beings. Each one recalls a critically-endangered bird in the British Isles archipelago – the capercaillie, curlew, lapwing, mistle thrush, and puffin. Their alarm calls signal danger, a form of communication that crosses species boundaries, and can save many recipients of different species simultaneously. This a...