Invited by Regart in Quebec (Canada), NaoKo spent one week working on a site specific piece, Spectrum of the Writing on the Wall (2015) in partnership with Avatar, Audio Visual Art Centre. It was created for a group show entitled ‘Forme élargie / Expanded Form’, with Jacinthe Carrier, Mathieu Valade, Fred Laforge, Chris Curreri, Lois Andison, curated by Amélie Laurence Fortin and Pawel Kaminski.
in this project, NaoKo collected the salt water from the local river, Saint-Lawrence River, and recorded the sound of water. She then layered it with her spoken voices and included it in the site-specific living installation, which she modified a dehumidifier so that it could keep a birch tree alive with the water collected from the evaporating salty river water and visitor's breath and sweat. Her decision to include the audience's unnoticed engagement was crucial since it questioned how human activities impact the environment.
Photograph: Charles-Frédérick Ouellet
Installation view at the opening with the green leafs on birch tree
Installation view at the closing
Documentation of liver performance using effect pedals
NaoKo making distorted sound with the tree's energy
Distorted Soundscape (2015)
Duration: 8-10min.
There is no video documentation of the performance at Regart, so I made a performance for video, which is similar to the one I performed using effect pedals and the tree in the installation.