10min VIDEO. Please use headphones to enjoy the experience.
and the world is mud | 2024
Medium: Interview audio, sounds recorded at Mizorogaike Pond, Japanese mirror, silk organza
‘and the world is mud’ is a 20-minute stereophonic sound installation presented in the final gallery of the solo exhibition 'and the world is mud’. It corresponds to the physical mud world of ‘Bodhisattva Pond’, the work displayed in the first space of the exhibition.
You enter the darkness through a small corridor. As your eyes adjust, you see a faintly glowing Japanese mirror spinning in the center. A series of “voices” rotating and moving randomly through the space are played from speakers installed on all sides and on the ceiling. At first the individual voices are only slightly discernible, but gradually their individuality is lost and the various sounds blend and swell, and the viewer is swallowed up in a whirlpool of sound.
This work was born from the artist's intuition of the similarities between the mud world observed at Mizorogaike Pond in Kyoto, which preserves relict species from the Ice Age, and our own deep consciousness.
Using sounds captured in field recordings and the memories of local people, the artist has created an stereophonic sound installation that allows the viewer to experience the invisible workings (a call from the cyclical world of life and death - physis -) common to the human mind and the nature that extends us. The work attempts to awaken a pre-linguistic sensibility by reconnecting us with the 'voiceless voice' hidden within the social order.
