Project
Time in Aso + Seismic Waves ― Aso , Zuiun-an, Kyoto
2021
In collaboration with
Masahiko Takeda, Kazuomi Eshima
At the exhibition "Reweaving the Rainbow" held at Zuiunan, "Time in Aso" and "Seismic Waves - Aso" were exhibited as one installation.
The artist's grandfather Hajime Hayashi from Kumamoto was observing earthquakes and volcanoes at the Volcanological laboratory of Kyoto University in Aso from 1932 to 1935. In the exhibition "Stance or Distance?" (Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, 2015), she visited her grandfather's hometown, Kumamoto, and traveled in her footsteps using his diary and autobiography as clues for her project. She then exhibited an art installation entitled "Distance-grandfather", which consists of the film photographs of Aso's volcano and the recording paper of the German seismometer both recorded by her grandfather and the photographs she took on her journey in 2015.
For the exhibition "Reweaving the Rainbow" (Zuiunan, 2021), she re-edited the project over the years and incorporated electronic sounds generated from seismic waveforms recorded by her grandfather into the installation.
Those sounds were flown from three speakers and woven together with the environmental sounds recorded during Aso's journey could be heard faintly from a super-directional speaker in the space.
Material:
Seismic waves recorded in 1932 and 2015 in Aso, Kumamoto.
glass sheet, sound speaker, digital sounds generated from the seismic waves, inkjet print, photo album, stones from Aso, hand made photo book