My Monster: The Human Animal Hybrid 29 June - 18 Aug 2018 RMIT Gallery, RMIT University, Swanston Street, Melbourne Australia My Monster: The Human Animal Hybrid explores our enduring fascination with the merging of the human and animal, and coincides with the 200th anniversary year of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Group exhibition curated by Evelyn Tsitas In a Manner of Speaking (2018) (version II) Audio (duration 8' 33") Vinyl lettering on glass (dimensions 1.8m x 2.8m)
The score was installed on the glass doors of RMIT gallery using vinyl lettering. It was created using attentive listening in central Melbourne, with a focus on considering common urban birds as language users, birds such as little ravens, wattlebirds, pigeons, silver gulls, rainbow lorikeets, willie wagtails, swallows, blackbirds, common mynas, noisy miners, spotted turtledoves, Australian magpies, grey butcherbirds, pied currawongs, starlings, sparrows, magpie-larks. Like a textual echo of the sounds commonly heard in this part of Melbourne, the score is focused on listening to the mix of bird and human voices in the city, as well as seeing and reading urban texts such as traffic signs, advertising, street names, business names, graffiti and so on. An excerpt of the participatory voicing of the score was a component of this installation, see audio below