Nothing personal

2018

 

Nothing Personal’ is an interactive sound installation triggers by participant’s voice. Each objects (tools) has its own function and meaning. It is a space that is essentially empty without your voice. Every object requires your interaction. It does not exist if you are not there to see it, to feel it, to play it. The project, ‘Nothing Personal’ was started in 2016 focusing on how we communicate and highlights the areas in which nuance is blurred and intention breaks down.

 

I choose 'voice' as a material because I consider it is the most fundamental method of communication. It requires a certain physical boundary, facial and bodily expression, a role of listener and speaker, and intonation. Along with etiquette, we all have a different type of constructing our appearance to gain respect, recognition, and value.

 

I am focusing on the game that we play daily through interactions with others and the power dynamics embedded in those communications. The project aims to elaborate the meaning of taking a position; after all, doing so alters the experience as the sound vibrations are materialized by way of a bobble head and through the use of a seesaw microphone, a long range listening device, a security camera and a windmill. In this installation, the sounds you make and the conversations you have are picked up, amplified and transformed into visual representation. The sense of private and public boundaries are blurred and blended together by playing with notions of an ideal communication.