S T I G M A
33 minute installation / video work from
field recording & video footage, looped. 2014
STIGMA portraits four landscape sceneries in Fukushima, post the nuclear disaster in 2011
By recording, mirroring and layering the ambient sound of these four landscapes on-location, the otherwise inaudible resonant tones between the trees and off rocks are revealed
Inspired from Kakemono (traditional hanging scroll landscape painting) the four idyllic looking nature scenes were shot in vertical video format. STIGMA challenges the classical concept of the idyllic nature
Originally commissioned by Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2014
Created and composed by Jacob Kirkegaard, Fukushima & New York, 2014
Video compositing by Bruce Tovsky, New York 2014. Thanks to Takashi Arai
Jacob Kirkegaard talks about Stigma
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