10min version. 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 room of the solo exhibition 'and the world is mud'.
Through a small corridor you enter the darkness. As your eyes adjust, you see a faintly glowing Japanese mirror spinning in the centre. Speakers on all sides and on the ceiling broadcast a series of 'voices' that rotate and move randomly around the room. At first, the individual voices are barely discernible, but gradually they blend and swell with different sounds, and the viewer is engulfed in a swirl 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.
