In ‘For the Birds’, American composer John Cage told his interviewer that questions should “preserve us from all the logical minimisations that we are at each instant tempted to apply to the flux of events.” The artist believing that questions are more powerful than answers in navigating our ever-changing world. This conceptual portrait of the composer—created from fragments of moving images that fill our screens and using Cage’s technique of piecing together that which swirls around us simultaneously to create something new—invites us to consider more deeply the questions that our digital landscape is posing as we navigate our daily existence.
This work was exhibited at Platform Arts, Geelong, 23 April-19 May 2023, in the group exhibition Acts of Translation.
Image: Jacinta Giles, For the birds?, 2022, digital print on removeable viynl, 2.34 m x 6.4 m
Image: Jacinta Giles, For the birds? 2022, insitu at Platform Arts Geelong, ‘Acts of Translation’ (23 April-19 May 2023), digital print on removeable viynl, 2.34 m x 6.4 m