PIGEONHOLE

Visit the PIGEONHOLE, nest and rest from the festival chaos, listen to collaborative pigeon music, watch raw footage, compose your own ditties, and collage a flock of desired futures together with other attendees. Check out Pigeon Planet at rarara.ca for exhibition BTS and digital add-ons.

This immersive multimedia installation is inspired by artist Emmie Tsumura’s evolving relationship with a motley crew of pigeons who visit her kitchen windowsill to eat snacks and hang out on toy keyboards.

PIGEONHOLE debuts the creative collaboration between Tsumura and her pigeons-in-crime, and engages communal postures of learning and creation through multispecies forms of intimacy, trust, and being. The installation expands from the human-pigeon partnership to also reflect on the frustrating limitations of diasporic identity labels that “pigeonhole” us. Instead of straining to be legible and recognizable through pre-established structures (born of violent colonial legacies), PIGEONHOLE considers what zany freedoms are possible in choosing nonsensical play and unfamiliar relations with other beings. What if we turned away from legibility, toward other forms of expression? What might happen if we got out of the weeds to spend some time with the birds?

This event is supported by Vtape.