ZHAO JIAJING
赵嘉旌
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Interruptica
Sound Installation //2024
Turntable, vinyl disks, coloured sugar, automatic fish feeder, stereo sound
Interruptica explores the normalisation of distraction and fragmented attention in today’s information-saturated world. Our focus is constantly disrupted by an overwhelming flow of addictive content, meticulously designed to capture our attention and consume our time. This ceaseless information surge creates a landscape of fragmented, low-quality experiences.
The installation features a vinyl record player, which plays music while an automatic fish feeder periodically releases sugar onto the spinning disc. As the stylus encounters the sugar grains, it skips unpredictably, causing the music to jump between grooves at random. Over time, the sugar sticks to the vinyl, permanently altering—or even corrupting—the music, rendering it unplayable in its original form.
Music, which demands concentration, is particularly vulnerable in the age of multimedia distractions. When was the last time you truly focused on an entire piece of music? How often is your listening interrupted by social media scrolling, web browsing, or streaming? And how has the mediascape shifted in response to our increasingly distracted behaviour?