Camille Auer’s Queer Bird Walks in May

People in the bird tower. A partly snowy, partly thawed wetland or field landscape can be seen in front. The rays of the evening sun are reflected from it either through water or ice. The people in the foreground are slightly in the shadow. Many of them are looking to the right. Some of them use binoculars.

Photo: Camille Auer

Many bird species are currently migrating north, and Helsinki’s wetlands serve as resting places for the travelers.

Camille Auer, who studies the phenomenology of birdwatching and the effect of cis and hetero norms in the production of information in her artistic work, takes those interested in the topic on a birding trip to Töölönlahti and Vanhankaupunginlahti in May. On the Queer Bird Walk, participants will observe and listen to the birds in the nearby nature and get to know how the general concepts of “natural” and ways of looking are built around cis and hetero norms.

Registration and more information about the Queer Bird Walk here.

People in the bird tower. A partly snowy, partly thawed wetland or field landscape can be seen in front. The rays of the evening sun are reflected from it either through water or ice. The people in the foreground are slightly in the shadow. Many of them are looking to the right. Some of them use binoculars.

Photo: Camille Auer