"Singing to love that will never come" , 2019.
O’o di Kauai, nome scientifico Moho braccatus, era una specie di passeriforme hawaiiano.
La caratteristica che li distingueva erano i canti che gli esemplari maschi emettevano nella stagioni degli amori, ognuno con un canto diverso. A questo canto, la femmina rispondeva con le stesse note, così veniva formata una nuova coppia. L’ultimo maschio di O’o fu registrato dal Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Bioacoustics Research Program, dal 1985 al 1987, anno della sua morte.
Il canto del maschio di O’o nell’installazione “Singing to love that will never come” fa da sottofondo a due foreste italiche: l’Appennino pistoiese, luogo che sta vivendo lo spopolamento verso le grandi città, a testimonianza di un passato ricco di tradizioni e storia (luogo della Linea Gotica durante la Seconda guerra mondiale) rimangono solo gli autoctoni più anziani, i quali non hanno più nessuno a cui insegnare il loro sapere, l’altro invece è l’area naturale protetta del bosco di Tanali, Bientina, unica zona dell’ex lago bientinese che testimonia come era prima del prosciugamento del lago e conseguente arrivo delle agricolture intensive.
Il canto del O’o da alieno diventa un’inno dell’ultimo stadio del cambiamento, ovvero l’estinzione.
Il nome dell’installazione è una citazione alla frase dI un biologo, nel documentario “Racing Extinction” : “He was singing to a female that will never come”.
The video installation "Singing to love that will never come" was an experiment, an attempt to represent a complex dynamic through the union of several elements and with different devices.
The installation has been proposed to be part of the "Third Time" exhibition at the Villa Pacini Battaglia in Bientina, where space has determined the choice of some technical features: three images projected on the walls, like windows or paintings on a parallel world and in the background the song of the O'o' of Kuai, scientific name Moho braccatus. This bird was a species of Hawaiian passerine. The characteristic that distinguished them was the songs that the males emitted to attract females, each with a different song. The females responded with the same notes, so a new couple was formed.
O’o's last male was recorded by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Bioacoustics Research Program, from 1985 to 1987, the year of his death.
The song of the O'o in the installation is the background to two Italic forests: the Pistoia Apennines, a territory that is experiencing depopulation towards the big cities, there remain the older natives, and
the other 'parallel world' is instead the protected natural area of the Tanali Forest, Bientina, a unique forest of its kind because it remained uncontaminated as in prehistory, survived the drying up of Lake of Bientina and the arrival of intensive agriculture.
The song of the O'o from alien becomes a hymn of the last stage of change, extinction. The name of the installation is a quote from the phrase of a biologist, contained in the documentary "Racing Extinction": "He was singing to a female that will never come".