These Birds of Temptation

These Birds of Temptation’ is a queer refrain, populated with both acoustical lines of flight and the sorrows of captivity. Here the reader-as-exhibition-viewer dives into an ornithological adventure, an erratic ensemble of feathers, flight, song, loss, escape, and evasion, from the birds of New Zealand and the song of the wood pewee, to looking at a blackbird or imagining you were a bluebird. Together the contributions include a series of object lessons, poetic visions, short stories, and theoretical reflections by various individuals, including Anne Geene and Arjan de Nooy, Mark Dion, Yoko Tawada, Sophia Graefe, Ari Bayuaji, Anaïs Nin, Bertolt Brecht, Nina Katchadourian, and more.