Where and when
Orario
18:00 – 19:00
Museo Novecento
Altre sedi
Performance by Kirsten Stromberg
Opening Loss for an Hour is a listening event and sound work that reflects on extinction, and the unfathomable loss of animals and living beings on the planet due to climate change, deforestation, and habitat destruction.
The sound work uses one of the last recordings of the now-extinct Kaua’i ‘ō’ō bird. The original birdsong recording is time-stretched into an hour-long soundscape, opening it into a vast, resonant field. The Kaua’i ‘ō’ō and its entire bird family were declared extinct in 2023 due to habitat loss, disease, and climate change. Only a few recordings remain. Kaua’i ‘ō’ō birds mate for life, and the recordings reveal the last male of the species singing a mating song for a female who will never come.
As a group listening event, Opening Loss for an Hour creates space to sit with this absence, with grief for the loss of species and voices, and with the impact of a human-centered worldview on the planet.
The event will take place on September 21, 2025, from 18:00-19:00, in Il Giardino Delle Leopoldine at Museo Novecento. The living plants in this garden, and the collective effort to care for this new space, reflect another way of being and tending to life.
