Echo Chant
Lotte Geeven uncovered an uncanny afterlife of protest chants. Long after the sloganeering has faded, their cadences live on in birds who imitate the protest sounds. In Echo Chant, twelve record players replay these strange inheritances, including an Inca jay on a hotel roof in Bogotá, an African grey parrot in Hong Kong and a song thrush near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Each bird sings from a place once gripped by prolonged protest. The work examines how historical events imprint themselves on the acoustic environment.