Interdisciplinary performance, 2014

loch/穴 is an interdisciplinary performance based on a collection of conversations that have been gathered in exchange for fortune readings from Koganecho residents around ‘monsters.’ Integrating audio recordings, projections and familial objects from the artist’s aunt and mother’s childhood home originally built in 1946. The house remains locked and exists beside their current place of residence in Yokohama. The soundscape is composed completely of the artist’s recordings (piano and voice) and alongside the moving images shape the architecture of memory, an imagined landscape through the ‘monstrous’ – a dream, childhood memory, or thing of fear that we often recall in our everyday lives when faced with the unknown. This work is first phase of the sister work to Mörkö (2012).

Sound Design: Kohsuke Nakamua (Kangaroo Paw)
Technical Assistance/Editing: Naoki Yoshimoto
Production Assistant: Shumpei Kato
Piano Recordings: Shizuko Mori
Translation: Miho Yamagishi
Set Construction: Gen Kurihara

Photo credit: Paul Mundok 

This project was produced during a residency at Koganecho Art Bazaar Fictive Asia Communities 2014, Koganecho, Yokohama, Japan.