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.
Work
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ZONE: A Gazing Practise of Ears2022, sound installation, 133 min 27 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Artist Bio
Born in 1997, Xu Chia-Chun is a sound artist, event planner and independent label manager. His sound aesthetics becomes the benchmark for post-2010 noise and sound art in Taiwan. Xu began performing and creating Harsh Noise under the name “Berserk”in 2015 and has been invited to tour in the UK, Japan and Malaysia before the project being suspended in early 2020. He has been practising the use of No-input Mixing Board and developed a distinctive style in this technology. Xu is now a solo performer/creator who is dedicated to conducting workshops and cultivating the experimental music scene. He is also the director of the experimental music label “MKUltra Productions,”which regularly releases noise and experimental music works from Taiwan and around the world to promote Taiwanese and worldwide noise and experimental music. In March 2019, he launched a monthly outdoor guerrilla noise gig Outer Pulsation in public under/overpasses in Taipei, which provides both experienced and emerging local musicians with a platform to develop improvisational skills and experiment in different spaces. Since then, it has organized 23 gigs featuring international musicians from more than ten different countries.