Join Clockshop’s open call for Songs of Emerging Endangerment by artist TJ Shin! This project welcomes those connected to the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, which spans South, Southeast, and East Asia, as well as the Western and Central Pacific. We are accepting three minutes of imitated calls from endangered birds that migrate this route. The edited composition of recordings will be projected as part of Shin’s installation at the Los Angeles State Historic Park in October 2025.

In each round of the open call, participants mimic the voices of the previous ones, creating a structure of repetition and response. This process of interpretation between people and their environment explores how mimicry can generate sonic and collective identifications across distances and geographies.

• Open Call: August 6 – September 7, 2025
• Eligibility: Anyone who identifies with or has relationships to the regions within the Flyway; if this isn’t you, please refer a friend or community member!
• Honorarium: Participants will receive a $75 honorarium for their contribution at the end of the round. All contributors who meet recording requirements will be credited in this project.
• Process: This phase of the open call process is the last of three rounds, and we are thankful to those who have contributed so far. Please note that if interest in the project exceeds the remaining 23 participant spots we can accommodate, we may close the round early. 

Learn more and sign up to participate! 

ABOUT THE ARTIST
TJ Shin (b. 1993, Seoul) is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Their multimedia practice, spanning film, video, installation, and sculpture, explores how structures of power discursively shape perception, form, and environment. Shin has exhibited at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Queens Museum, Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Arts, Lewis Center for the Arts, Montclair State University Galleries, Doosan Gallery, Knockdown Center, and more. Their writing has been published in Active Cultures, Asia Art Archive, the Brooklyn Rail, Mousse Magazine, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.

CREDITS
Songs of Emerging Endangerment by TJ Shin was commissioned by Clockshop and organized by Cat Yang, Director of Artist Projects, with Isabel Yi Jimenez, Project Associate. Clockshop’s projects at Los Angeles State Historic Park are supported through our long-standing partnership with California State Parks. 

The production of this work was generously supported by Accelerated Resilience Los Angeles (ARLA), the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Los Angeles Department of Arts and Culture, and Clockshop’s generous community of supporters.

OPEN CALL PARTICIPANTS
Joann Ahn, Elise Armani, Crystal Baik, Ako Castuera, Patty Chang and students, Misa Chhan, Sarah Cho, Sofia Thiệu D’Amico, Mira Dayal, Julia Deng, Mai Lian Feng, Inez Gruenberg-Kim, Joshua Her, Asuka Hisa, Delaney Holton, David Horvitz, Ela Melanie Horvitz, Amy Bell Hou, Grace Huang, Andrew Sung Taek Ingersoll, Amy Kahng, Kii Kang, Ren Kanoelani, Noah Kenji, Eleana Kim, Christine Y. Kim, Akari Komura, Heesoo Kwon, Ellie Lee, Ian Lee, Christopher Lin, Jane Liu, Annie Nguyen, Bảo Châu Thiệu Nguyễn, Tausif Noor, Kai Oh, Kiyoshi Okada, Alex Paik, Gigi Pun, Bao Ping Qu, Jerome Reyes, Martha Schnee, Patrick Shiroishi, Daniel Soto, Chen Qiu Tao, Adrian Techasith, Jacinda Tran, Noon Tran, Andy Wong, Mya Worrell, Callista Yank, Sue Bell Yank, Andrew Ye, Eugene Yi, Norge Yip, Amia Yokoyama, Kimberly Yu, Yian Ying Hu Yu, Maggie Zheng