somewhere
2016
Sound Installation
landscape painting, sound, speaker
Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC), Aomori, Japan
Photo/Video: Tadasu Yamamoto/Hiroshi Suminaka
I listen to a landscape that someone once saw.
During my residence at Aomori Contemporary Art Centre [ACAC], I traveled Aomori looking for the landscapes I had seen portrayed in paintings of the prefecture.
In some cases, the same landscape was still there to greet me, but others were completely changed, without a trace of the painted portrayal left behind.
Some of them had been changed due to changes in our society, while others had been transformed by climate or disaster. I could not help but think that the sounds of each place must also follow the same trajectory.
Landscape paintings are very vague, a media often embellished by the obscure memories and subjective perceptions of their artists. As such, they are a feeble way to accurately record the lay of the land. The time that landscape painters spend painting, I spend doing field recordings. This is much like extracting an obscure layer of memory woven into the landscape.
2016
Sound Installation
landscape painting, sound, speaker
Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC), Aomori, Japan
Photo/Video: Tadasu Yamamoto/Hiroshi Suminaka
I listen to a landscape that someone once saw.
During my residence at Aomori Contemporary Art Centre [ACAC], I traveled Aomori looking for the landscapes I had seen portrayed in paintings of the prefecture.
In some cases, the same landscape was still there to greet me, but others were completely changed, without a trace of the painted portrayal left behind.
Some of them had been changed due to changes in our society, while others had been transformed by climate or disaster. I could not help but think that the sounds of each place must also follow the same trajectory.
Landscape paintings are very vague, a media often embellished by the obscure memories and subjective perceptions of their artists. As such, they are a feeble way to accurately record the lay of the land. The time that landscape painters spend painting, I spend doing field recordings. This is much like extracting an obscure layer of memory woven into the landscape.
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