2021
Installation + generated sounds
An experimental work that brings the writer’s childhood memories into the present. The installation piece is inspired by the bath at the grandparents’ house, which was heated daily with firewood, the temperature difference between inside and outside, and the visualization of time that could be felt there.
The installation occupies the entire gallery, including two rooms, a courtyard, and a backyard. In each of the two rooms—one bright with a window (representing the present) and the other pitch-dark without a window (representing the past)—a drum can “window” is placed in the center, through which the air of the two rooms is exchanged. In the bright room, a sound representing water, generated from weather data from the past (1987 – 1990), quietly plays continuously. When someone approaches the drum can (equipped with sensors) in the bright room, a sound representing fire plays in the dark room. The dark room is filled with a steamy warmth and mist, reminiscent of being inside a bath, and the faint scent of cypress, evoking the mountains surrounding the grandparents’ home, lingers in the air. The light leaking from the drum can in the dark room (the past) and the generated sound symbolize the time that has moved from the bright room (the present).
> In the bright room a drum, distance sensors, Raspberry Pi, a speaker, WiFi cable, japanese cypress essential oil, ceder branch, a block wood board cut into a circle, rusted metal rod, cotton rope(10m, ø10mm), four blocks, aluminum sheet > In the dark room a drum, speakers, sounds generated from past weather forecast data, WiFi cable, a black styrol board cut into a circle, light, humidifier, japanese cypress essential oil, oil heater From a barrel, you can hear two difference sounds. One was a continuous generated sounds condense the past weather forecast data of 3 years (1987 - 1990) into 8 hours. The sound was inspired by rain or waterdrops. Another sound was played in the dark room (B) only when someone approached a drum in the bright room (A). The sound became louder while somone approached the drum in the bright room (A), and the sound changed from water dropping into the crackling of flames. The water sound was generated by using the precipitation and average pressure data of past weather forecasts, and the fire sound was generated using the sunshine duration and maximum temperature data. > On the courtyard Agar gelatin on the wooden bathtub lid > On the backyard Grandparent‘s original bathtub for wood-firing that had used in my childhood, blocks, ceder branch
Performance on 2021.march.05
In order to visualize the memory of the bath, agar gelatin made from 190L water in the bathtub. The gelatin was cooked in the backyard and turned over in the courtyard. During the exhibition, the gelatin on the floor was stepped on by people and became smaller and was washed away by the rain. In some areas, mold developed on it. The gelatin that stuck to the bottom of the bathtub dried and cracked.
Making agr gelee on 2021.march.03
Technische Unterstützung – Studio Fluffy
甲田千晴
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