Produced for the launch of Jasmina Cibic’s sound work Dawn Chorus at Belvedere 21 in Vienna, this series of six artist postcards extends the installation’s reflection on migration, displacement, and the political construction of belonging. Each postcard depicts a bird species heard within the work’s sonic environment — birds originating from territories marked both by contemporary histories of war and forced migration, and by their participation in the early formations of the Non-Aligned Movement, the political alliance established by countries advocating for anti-colonial solidarity and self-determination. These same regions remain among the principal homelands of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children arriving in Austria today.
On the reverse of each postcard, Cibic places fragments drawn from discussions, speeches, and statements by artists, curators, and cultural workers participating in the first conference of cultural workers of the Non-Aligned Movement — voices articulating the urgencies, solidarities, and cultural conditions emerging across newly independent and politically contested territories. The pairing of birdsong with these archival fragments connects systems of ecological naming, cultural exchange, and geopolitical rupture, tracing how identities, territories, and forms of belonging are continuously represented, negotiated, and contested.
Distributed within the garden where the installation unfolded, the postcards functioned as portable fragments of the work’s wider acoustic landscape — carrying echoes of destroyed, displaced, and continuously reimagined worlds.
