Songs of Emerging Endangerment; Signal and Response Workshop

This all-ages workshop invites audiences to explore mimicry, a process of imitation and repetition present in Songs of Emerging Endangerment, a sound installation by TJ Shin. Over three open call rounds, more than 50 participants from regions along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway mimicked the voices of earlier participants, starting with field recordings of 15 endangered bird species that migrate through Asia and the Pacific Islands. These imitated calls are broadcast hourly from dusk to dawn through a 30-foot air raid siren.

Join us for engaging sound-based activities to reflect on movement, memories, and meaning across time and distances, using Clockshop’s Youth Activity Guide. 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.

Signal and Response: Workshop
Co-presented with GYOPO
Saturday, December 6, 2025
2:00-4:00 PM
Los Angeles State Historic Park

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.

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.

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).  

Kya-Marina Lê
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.  

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.

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