hEAR: You are what you are sensing
耳斤
2019
Sound Installation
Enameled magnetic copper wires, super strong magnets, mono amplifiers, stretched canvas, MDF board



hEAR is a site-specific sound installation consisting of multiple handmade speakers on canvases playing a computer-generated stereo soundscape.

Its concept emerges from my response to a lifetime sensitivity to high frequency sound. This ‘excessive hearing’ triggers physiologic and emotional feelings - anxiety, timidity, need to escape - which led to the form of this project as an artistic metaphor of  “my fear” and “my courage to face it.”

@2026

@Xiaoyu Liu