The canaries


Two channel video,  17:40”, 2021



        
The Canaries, Installation View • Photo: Anael Berkovitz



The canaries uses the phrase “canary in a coal mine”- an early warning of an impending crisis; bypasses language by activating flashes of light pulsing at 40 Hz, which is said to cause the brain to release a surge of signaling chemicals that can help fight Alzheimer’s disease—a chronic degenerative disease.




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