Remnant Layers is an audio artwork about how we hear and understand our surrounding audio landscapes. We usually don’t actively listen to our surroundings, and often notice these audio ambiences only after they have changed.
Remnant Layers asks the listener: What does your childhood home sound like today? How did the trip to school sound when you where a child and how has it changed? What are the sounds from your history and life, which today don’t sound the same? The artwork addresses how Tokyo’s Shibuya district’s audio surroundings have changed over time, and what they might sound like in the future.
The new artwork will be presented at Dig Shibuya Festival in February 8-11th 2025, a 4-day event merging technology and art to create a unique cultural experience. The event takes over many central locations in Shibuya. Remnant Layers is presented as indoor and outdoor audio installations in three different locations (www.digshibuya.com, https://www.instagram.com/digshibuya/).
Wright´s artwork is presented in Dig Shibuya in collaboration with Jamgle Jam Promotion. As part of the pARTir project, the audio exhibition in Dig Shibuya is an example of sustainable cultural export in which an artwork is presented by the assistance of local collaborators and by minimizing carbon footprint caused by travelling.
Timo Wright is a media artist and filmmaker based in Finland. Exhibiting internationally, he has recently concentrated especially in presenting his artworks in Japan. In Japan, his recent exhibitions include e.g. Nakanojo Biennale and Kameyama Triennale, amongst others.
Currently, he is interested especially in location-based audio. In Japan, he has been investigating our common audio surroundings and ambiences. How do our audio surroundings change over time, and how do we notice and document them? In additiona, he has been interested in how traditions change or sometimes are lost in our contemporary times, and what might be the possible traditions in the future.
The project is supported by the Finnish Institute in Japan as part of the pARTir initiative funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
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