Songs of Emerging Endangerment by artist TJ Shin, commissioned by Clockshop is a sound installation that uses mimicry to map systems of global migration from the Asia-Pacific. Over 50 participants connected to regions along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway imitate the calls of endangered bird species that travel the world's largest bird migratory path. The project features a 30-foot-tall air raid siren that broadcasts a composition of these calls hourly from dawn to dusk. Birdhouse sirens, nicknamed after their appearance and once used as instruments of civic defense until 1985, can still be found throughout Los Angeles. Projected to hear the calls distinctly in proximity and faintly in distance, 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. The installation invites reflection on the ways our urban spaces are shaped, and how our relationships to them might be reimagined.
Learn more on the project page.

Songs of Emerging Endangerment
Opening Reception with TJ Shin
Saturday, October 25, 2025
2:00-4:00 PM
Los Angeles State Historic Park

A performance lecture by TJ Shin will begin promptly at 2:45 PM. Light refreshments will be provided.

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.

ACCESSIBILITY

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.

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, Deborah and Colin Dayton, and Clockshop’s generous community of supporters.