Winds and Memories

  • Jiuming Duan

A research and practice-based project exploring the emotional and cultural connections between people's memories and the wind in nature. The work proposes to answer the question that why human beings intuitively believe that nature is poetic and profound. It reflects the concept that the ecology between natural environments and the culture of human beings in Ecological Anthropology. There are different outcomes in the different stages of the research. The artist is attempting to create a theatrical experience which combines installation art, interactive technologies and documentary, to communicate ideas tangibly, in order to provoke audiences to think about their relationship with nature.

Multi-channel audio narrating installation with real-time interaction exhibited in Menier Gallery, London. 2021

Four different personal memories were narrated in audio and accompanied with retrieved sound of the wind in the memory by analog sound design, which is instantly affected by the movment of the air in the space.
A speaker pendulum sound installtion exhibited at Iklectik Art Lab, London. 2021
The installation artwork at the first stage of the research.
Field recording on the cliff in Dover. Record the wind from the English Channel and the heritages from WWII.