- What happens when there is something invisible

『Sleeping Whales』 began with a thesis. “Suicidal whales”, namely, the phenomenon of hundreds of whales coming to land each year in Australia and some countries in Europe and committing suicide, and studies have shown that torpedo detection radio waves generated by nearby submarines and the radio waves from smartphones or radios used on land cause whales to lose their sense of direction and cause them to come up to land and kill themselves.

Based on this information, I created a small radio waves transmission system (radio station) that could generate radio waves at the exhibition hall. The radio waves generated from the radio station I created spread to a radius of approximately 100m in the surrounding area through radio frequencies 88.3MHz and 94.8MHz, and the sound produced at the radio station was transmitted together through radio waves. In the exhibition hall, to this radio wave, a dancing bird (radio bird) and a radio fan made of 30 radios rotated from the ceiling, transformed the sound generated by the radio station again. Outside the exhibition hall, people who were listening to the existing broadcasts using the radio frequencies of 88.3MHz and 94.8MHz were disturbed or had to listen to sounds they did not need to hear.

By creating contradictory situations arising from the radio waves system, which is one of the social systems of humanity, it is expected that thinking about non-visual area as well as the consideration of the relationship between nature and humans will be expanded.