Long Distance Dedication (Now on with the countdown) is a sound work composed of appropriated lyrics of pop songs from the 1970s as a Greek chorus for the environment. Voices express the emotional urgency of rising sea levels and increasingly intense weather—for humans and non-humans alike. Visitors are invited to stream the work (available from QR codes on signs situated around the island) while sitting on the island’s edges, looking out towards the ocean, and will hear phrases from songs come and go, like flickering radio station signals in far-flung places. The gaps between them become filled by the ambient sounds of the place itself. Singing to all those who can hear it, this soundtrack serves as a collective voice underscoring the bewildering and rapid changes in the world.
