Los Angeles State Historic Park
2–4 PM
Signal and Response, a two-part program series co-presented by Clockshop and GYOPO, aims to activate "Songs of Emerging Endangerment," a sound installation by TJ Shin at Los Angeles State Historic Park commissioned by Clockshop.
Join us for a workshop which engages sound-based activities to reflect on movement, memories, and meaning across time and distances. Using Clockshop’s Youth Activity Guide, this all-ages workshop invites audiences to explore mimicry, a process of imitation and repetition present in Songs of Emerging Endangerment.
First, Crystal Mun-hye Baik, a feminist memory worker, educator, and birder, will share about her studies on migration from the Asia-Pacific. Then, we’ll embark on a guided walk by Kya-Marina Lê, a naturalist, to locate and identify the calls of active birds in the park to imitate with each other.
Join us for our first program, a workshop which engages sound-based activities to reflect on movement, memories, and meaning across time and distances. Using Clockshop’s Youth Activity Guide, this all-ages workshop invites audiences to explore mimicry, a process of imitation and repetition present in Songs of Emerging Endangerment.
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.
Crystal Mun-hye Baik (she/her) is a feminist memory worker, an educator, and a birder living in the unceded territory of the Tongva people. She is the current chair of the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside and the Pedagogical Lead for the Memory & Resistance Laboratory. Crystal has authored two books including the forthcoming Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun: An Elegy (Duke University Press, April 2026).
Often described as a hummingbird, Kya-Marina Lê (she/her/they/them) floats around the southern coast (Tovaangar), from their hometown of Garden Grove (Totabit) to Long Beach (Povuu'nga) and throughout the LA area, in search of aromatic native plants. Lê is a queer diasporic Vietnamese naturalist whose relationship to the outdoors is rooted in childhood road trips across Turtle Island. She is the Program Manager at Community Nature Connection.