The closing reception of Songs of Emerging Endangerment, a sound installation by TJ Shin, features a conversation between Summer Kim Lee, Miljohn Ruperto (moderator), and Jacinda S. Tran. This program aims to offer perspectives from scholars and artists who engage with the historiography and construction of diasporic aesthetics and identities from the Asia-Pacific.

Songs of Emerging Endangerment, a sound installation by TJ Shin, uses mimicry to map systems of global migration from the Asia-Pacific. The project features a 30-foot-tall sculptural air raid siren that projects a composition of imitated bird calls scheduled throughout the day. In an open call process, over 50 participants connected to regions along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway were asked to imitate the calls of endangered bird species that travel the world’s largest bird migratory path. Set to sound hourly from dawn to dusk, the work examines how mimicry—and the differences it produces in process and perception—both extend and transform instruments of the Cold War and their fields of power. At once a sonic rehearsal and social strategy, the installation invites reflection on the ways our urban spaces are shaped, and how our relationships to them might be reimagined.

Listen to the conversation here.

Signal and Response: Conversation
Co-presented with GYOPO
Sunday, February 22, 2026
2:00-4:00 PM
Los Angeles State Historic Park

Signal and Response is a two-part program series co-presented by Clockshop and GYOPO.

ARRIVAL
Los Angeles State Historic Park is located at 1501 N Spring Street, directly adjacent to Chinatown and the Metro A Line. Follow the dirt path around the perimeter of the main lawn of the park to the northeast. 

Parking
There is paid parking at 1501 N Spring Street, the main parking lot of the park, at $2/hour, up to $8 daily. The park will open the dirt overflow parking lot directly in front of the main parking lot which is free and first come, first served. There is also free street parking around the park. Please avoid parking near residential homes on the east side of Main Street and give yourself plenty of time to park and walk over!

Restrooms
There are several all-gender public restrooms and portapotties on site.

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.

ABOUT THE COLLABORATORS
GYOPO is a collective of diasporic Korean cultural producers and arts professionals generating and sharing progressive, critical, intersectional and intergenerational discourses, community alliances, and free educational programs in Los Angeles and beyond.

Summer Kim Lee is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first book, Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair (2025) is out with Duke University Press. Some of her other published work can be found in ASAP/Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, Momus, The New York Times Magazine, Post45, and Social Text.

Miljohn Ruperto (b.1971 Manila, Philippines) lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Ruperto develops approaches to interrogating and expanding our conception of nature and history: e.g. historiography, the history of nature, and the nature of nature.

Jacinda S. Tran is an interdisciplinary scholar of visual culture, space, and empire. She is currently a visiting lecturer in the Program of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College, teaching in Asian American and queer studies.

ACCESSIBILITYArrival
Los Angeles State Historic Park is located at 1501 N Spring Street, directly adjacent to Chinatown and the Metro A Line. Follow the dirt path around the perimeter of the main lawn of the park to the northeast.

Parking
There is paid parking at 1501 N Spring Street, the main parking lot of the park, at $2/hour, up to $8 daily. The park will open the dirt overflow parking lot directly in front of the main parking lot which is free and first come, first served. There is also free street parking around the park. Please avoid parking near residential homes on the east side of Main Street and give yourself plenty of time to park and walk over!

Restrooms
There are several all-gender public restrooms and portapotties on site.

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, Artist Projects Manager. 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.

Signal and Response, a two-part program series co-presented by Clockshop and GYOPO, was generously supported by the Kebok Foundation.