A BIRD WITHOUT A SONG
2016
Vertical HD video, 4:54 min.
LCD Screen, MDF and plexiglass
18.25 × 37.5 × 4.25 inches
A video-sculpture featuring Tinder users lip-synching a sad love song
A Bird Without A Song is a video-sculpture in the form of an oversized mobile phone displaying a looping Tinder-profile animation. The video is a geo-located rendition of the song “Nothing Compares 2 U” by Prince in the voice of Sinead O’Connor, lip-synced by animating profile pictures of users in the vicinities of the Chapinero neighborhood in Bogotá (Colombia.) At once haunting and comedic, the piece encapsulates the ubiquity of packaged online presence and swipe-based romance in the 21st century while illustrating the dynamics of overlapping gender binaries in the age of digitial fluidity.