Free as a Bird, Mute as a Statue: Terra Ephemera
Day 2
Club B
2:30pm
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How a poem became a sound-reactive projection on a terracotta statue. In May 2026 Lightscape Ventures curated and co-produced Terra Ephemera, three projection artworks inside the world's largest collection of monumental terracotta in Kikinda, Serbia. The talk follows Ivan Solod's Little Birds, built in Manchester for a shallow terracotta bird bath he had only seen in photographs: a 19th-century poem by an exiled author, read aloud, transformed into birdsong, turned into code, projected onto rough porous terracotta. Every stage was an act of translation; the talk shows what each translation cost and what it gained.
