A Little Bird Told Me
PAST EVENTS
24 Sep 2025
Cukrarna
FreeThe A Little Bird Told Me project engages with the emerging debate on the ethics of recording, translating and communicating with non-human species. The power dynamic between recorder and recordee is challenged through sonic collaboration with a chattering community of Common Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) inhabiting London’s largest public square, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Starlings are known for mimicking other birds and non-avian sounds such as car alarms, mobile phone ringtones and human speech. Their expert mimesis raises questions about how starlings participate in the oral histories of their human co-sounders. What are the ethics of starlings? Do starlings do ethics?
Through a combination of performative and speculative practices, including an unstable choral workshop in collaboration with starlings, Logan and Thompson explore where the agency of humans and non-humans begins and ends.
Matej Tomažin
The A Little Bird Told Me project engages with the emerging debate on the ethics of recording, translating and communicating with non-human species. The power dynamic between recorder and recordee is challenged through sonic collaboration with a chattering community of Common Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) inhabiting London’s largest public square, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Starlings are known for mimicking other birds and non-avian sounds such as car alarms, mobile phone ringtones and human speech. Their expert mimesis raises questions about how starlings participate in the oral histories of their human co-sounders. What are the ethics of starlings? Do starlings do ethics?
Through a combination of performative and speculative practices, including an unstable choral workshop in collaboration with starlings, Logan and Thompson explore where the agency of humans and non-humans begins and ends.
An artist, researcher and educator whose practice spans installation, sound, moving image and performance, engaging critically with cross-disciplinary and more-than-human contexts.
A design researcher and lecturer employing participatory and making-led methodologies to investigate material participation and human–nonhuman entanglements from an ecological perspective.
Photo: Matej Tomažin
