XU Chia-Chun

XU Chia-Chun

ZONE: A Gazing Practise of Ears

  • 2022, sound installation, 133 min 27 sec.
  • Courtesy of the artist.

Curatorial Perspective

EIn the film Stalker (1979), a suburban town experiences phenomena that transcend the laws of physics after a meteorite lands there. Time and space are manipulated by unseen forces and are no longer linear or predictable. In ZONE: A Gazing Practise of Ears, an attempt is made to use sound as a device. Through a multi-channel system, an irregularly shaped space within the museum is transformed into an independent sound field. As audiences hear modulated sounds that do not belong to that time or space, their sensory perceptions of “here” and “there,” to which they have become accustomed, are blurred.

Creation Description

In the film Stalker (1979), a suburban town experiences phenomena that transcend the laws of physics after a meteorite lands there. Time and space are manipulated by unseen forces and are no longer linear or predictable. In ZONE: A Gazing Practise of Ears, an attempt is made to use sound as a device. Through a multi-channel system, a lost space within the museum is transformed into an independent sound field. As audiences hear modulated sounds that do not belong to that time or space, their sensory perceptions of “here” and “there,” to which they have become accustomed, are blurred.