Instructions: for this online version, please use headphones, close eyes.
GPS: 9°53'5.10"N; 85°30'53.45"W
The Protected (#43) is a sound and visual installation featuring one of many location recordings that Bowie recorded whilst
sitting on The Flats during and after the rewilding of Órbitas. Footage of the environs of Órbitas slowly transform as the viewer listens
Speakers are spaced for surround sound within the instatallation and headphones also flank several chairs within the space.
An archive to identify the multitude of insect, bird and animal species in this recording and and other recordings is currently in progress.
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This work was created in the hills of Samara Costa Rica and developed in K'emk'emeláy̓ (colonially known as Vancouver BC.),
situated on the stolen, unceded, ancestral and current territories of the əəθkʷə̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵw̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish)
and sə̓lil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, with respect and acknowledgement of their aeons-long nationhood, cultures, knowledge,
languages and all relations. We support ongoing actions and initiatives here and in the unceded Wet'suwet'en Yintah.