FUKUSHIMA'20
Interactive installation, 2019-2021
FUKUSHIMA'20
GENERAL INFO: Hybrid media installation (Video, Soundscape, and Web platform), 2019
PLACE: Bienalsur 2021 / MAR Museum / Mar del Plata, AR
GENERAL INFO: Hybrid media installation (Video, Soundscape, and Web platform), 2019
PLACE: Bienalsur 2021 / MAR Museum / Mar del Plata, AR
Fukushima '20 is a research-based project reflecting on the catastrophic scale of human intervention in nature and the emergence of "dark ecologies." Based on the artist's field trip to the exclusion zone, the work examines the 21st-century "Technological Sublime"—a sense of terrible beauty and awe evoked by radioactive landscapes and industrial collapse.
METHODOLOGY: REAL-TIME SONIFICATION
The installation features a complex auditory layer: a dedicated web platform made by Kobayashi Lab., Center For Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo that streams real-time environmental sounds captured directly from the radioactive forests of Fukushima. This live sonification bridges the geographic gap between the gallery and the exclusion zone, creating an immersive, invisible connection to a landscape reshaped by human error.
VISUAL NARRATIVE
The sonic experience is paired with a video collage of original footage documented during the artist's journey through the zone. The work questions the ethics of "dark tourism" and investigates how our sensory perception of disaster is mediated through digital technology. By layering authentic field recordings with speculative research, Fukushima '20 challenges the viewer to confront the permanent scars of the Anthropocene.
METHODOLOGY: REAL-TIME SONIFICATION
The installation features a complex auditory layer: a dedicated web platform made by Kobayashi Lab., Center For Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo that streams real-time environmental sounds captured directly from the radioactive forests of Fukushima. This live sonification bridges the geographic gap between the gallery and the exclusion zone, creating an immersive, invisible connection to a landscape reshaped by human error.
VISUAL NARRATIVE
The sonic experience is paired with a video collage of original footage documented during the artist's journey through the zone. The work questions the ethics of "dark tourism" and investigates how our sensory perception of disaster is mediated through digital technology. By layering authentic field recordings with speculative research, Fukushima '20 challenges the viewer to confront the permanent scars of the Anthropocene.
