by Simon Faithfull 

a Book Launch
a filmed Performance-Lecture
+ a casual Artist Talk over drinks

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6 pm Opening
7 pm Viewing of a performance-lecture filmed within the Berlin Natural History Museum's Bird Collection. //Premiere! 36 mins
8 pm Casual Artist  Talk + a Q&A over drinks
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Berlin's Naturkundemuseum feels like an almost infinite library of life on this planet. Its millions of specimens form a kind of cathedral of Taxonomy – an attempt to name, to categorize, and to 'box' all the entangled diversity of life. 'Explaining Taxonomy to a Bird' is a series of artworks that came out of a 6-month residency within the Museum's collections – specifically the museum's 200,000 dead birds.

At Changing Room two late outcomes from this research will be launched - a book and the Premiere of a performance-lecture filmed within the Museum's Historic Bird Collection. Both seek to destabilize and question some of science's bombastic certainties, and to reflect upon how humans have designated themselves as a category apart from all the other species they share their planet with.

Get a pretaste:
Our podcast series "In Conversation with Nature" - Episode #4 with Simon Faithfull! 
https://www.changing-room.com/podcast

The event is part of the series "More-than-human: Music from other species.⁠"