Signal and Noise

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April 25, 2006

Every night, for whatever reason, and I'm sure there's a good one, an endless river of black clouds the sky in the form of crows migrating across the city to Burnaby. They seemingly mimic the endless stream of commuters on their way home to the suburbs. Do crows have office jobs? I don't know. At this year's Signal + Noise Zoe Gordini and Vern Clare attempt to create a situationist detournment by interrupting this nightly crow migration. By donning a suit made of bread, they hope to intervene this act of nature and include crows in art.

Of course, Signal+Noise is a festival full of experimental audio and video. Other highlights include a sleep surveillance piece called Are we sleeping yet? by Reena Katz of T.O. Local graphic designer The Wax Museum present the Cronenburg sounding "Get Fucked in a Crash". Niklas Golbach will have the honour of doing the front window installation. Christian Nicolay will be showing Amptank, and there will be a whole array of experimental music by such notables as Lee Hutzulak and Francoise Houle. Check out the program for schedule times.

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Whoa, they're going to tempt multiple murders of crows by wearing a bread suit? That takes nerves of steel. Fa' real. Sorry about that.

Posted by: Jeff at April 25, 2006 12:55 PM | Quote Comment

You haven't lived until you've seen the crows fly in to land in that slash of trees up by Burnaby Hospital at twilight.

There's a good reason that a mass of crows is called a murder...

Posted by: Richard Murray

at April 25, 2006 1:32 PM | Quote Comment

I hope she knows what she's doing. I'm no scientist, but it seems like a bunch of crows pecking at your flesh could maybe seriously fuck you up.

Posted by: Scott PM at April 25, 2006 2:17 PM | Quote Comment

Fucked up!

Posted by: Ariadna at April 25, 2006 2:29 PM | Quote Comment

Crows are smart and mean... walk down any of the streets with the big oak trees up around Fraser and King Ed once they start laying eggs; you will be dive-bombed by a couple of them. If you're wearing a bread suit, they might stop to peck at your bread or your juicy, juicy eyes...

Posted by: Richard Murray

at April 25, 2006 2:41 PM | Quote Comment

I wouldn't mind betting that the crows utterly refuse to co-operate with any artistic endeavour and ignore the bread suit. Relative to their size, crows are extremely smart and are very cool creatures in their own right - probably sensible enough to steer clear of this kind of twonkery...

Posted by: Cat at April 25, 2006 3:12 PM | Quote Comment