Stellenbosch Triennial, 2020.
It is an installation that relies on the logic of multimodal imaging to unsettle a kind of silent class system of imaging that privileges the oculus as the primary addressee in visual culture. The visual, and by association what is visible, is not only accessed through sight but includes an expanded field of images that are sonic and tactile as well. Thus "Birdcall 961: Appendix C" bring the visual, sonic and tactile imaging forms into collision on the same surface in the installation's narrative.
The multiple-imaging installation was produced on-site in response to the maiden Stellenbosch Triennial theme "Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us". It combines four imaging technologies; braille deo, light drawing, and charcoal drawing, to retell the event of hijacked Ethiopian airline flight 961 which crashed in the Comoros Island in 1996
The installation sacritices the coherent narrative read in the official report of the hijacking incident tor the success of bringing multi-imaging forms onto a single surface. The surface which negotiates spacial relations between spectators and their experience of the installation equally denies privileging one image form over another. Where the visual lacks braille compensates and where the raille tails sound amplifies. There is also the translation of the sonic image into braille form which is necessarily tactile and so doing sound metaphorically becomes palpable. These experiments that allow image forms to compensate for, amplity, and be translated give birth to another kind of relation with images that require new attitudes, new learning, and even other technologies to engage the immanent image. It anticipates a rejection of the known body in favour of equally immanent bodies produced as a result of the encounters with these seemingly banal and dated yet little known technologies in the way they come together in this
constellation.