Unfamiliar Familiarity (2020)
Audio recordings, archived images, QR codes
This work was participated in To a Passer-By, a group show curated by Caitlin Heaney.
To a Passer-by is a series of artist-led walks drawing attention to the many disused buildings and forgotten spaces across Glasgow’s city centre. Due to COVID-19, many buildings lie empty, feeding into a city-wide phenomenon of vacancy, often leading to dereliction. To a Passer-by is inviting artists to respond to these spaces and create audio works which can be listened to on a walk around the city.
Coming to this city as a traveler, all visual experiences are new and unfamiliar to me. Once when I was walking on the road, I heard a familiar sound, which was very similar to the street noise I would hear when I was in Taiwan. For a moment, my mind created a flowing image based on this sound and covered my current sight. Suddenly I felt like I was in two different spaces at the same time.
The difference between the actual existence of space and the instantaneity of sound, unfamiliar familiarity, imageless image, a feeling constructed from reality and imaginations, is what I am looking for discuss.
To a Passer-by is a series of artist-led walks drawing attention to the many disused buildings and forgotten spaces across Glasgow’s city centre. Due to COVID-19, many buildings lie empty, feeding into a city-wide phenomenon of vacancy, often leading to dereliction. To a Passer-by is inviting artists to respond to these spaces and create audio works which can be listened to on a walk around the city.
Coming to this city as a traveler, all visual experiences are new and unfamiliar to me. Once when I was walking on the road, I heard a familiar sound, which was very similar to the street noise I would hear when I was in Taiwan. For a moment, my mind created a flowing image based on this sound and covered my current sight. Suddenly I felt like I was in two different spaces at the same time.
The difference between the actual existence of space and the instantaneity of sound, unfamiliar familiarity, imageless image, a feeling constructed from reality and imaginations, is what I am looking for discuss.
