Now comes a video/installation project created by visual artists Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, in collaboration with sci-fi writer Ted Chiang. The project interweaves filmed footage from the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Puerto Rico with acoustic and visual portraits of endangered parrots living in the forests nearby.
Chiang’s story The Great Silence serves as the narrative text, “spoken” by one of the surviving parrots. Excerpts from the text below, interwoven with images documenting the construction of the radio telescope, courtesy of the Arecibo Observatory.
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Below, a link to the video, an interspecies contact call worthy of close consideration:
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