Liminal Frames: An exploration to the aesthetic of liminal space through sound

"Liminal Frames" is a multichannel sound installation that immerses listeners in transitional spaces—domestic, personal, and spiritual—using evolving soundscapes to blur the boundaries between the familiar and the surreal. The project invites audiences to experience the fluidity of space through sound and memory.

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Abstract

Liminal Frames is a multichannel sound installation that explores the transitionality of liminal space, an uncertain space between two different states or locations, both physically and figuratively. The film images connect the imagined world within the frame and the real world outside. Viewing the film transports the audience from a world of imagination to a world of observation and experience. The installation consists of three distinct soundscapes, each placing the audience in a different liminal space: a kitchen, a childhood bedroom, and a mountain temple. Respectively, these spaces symbolize domesticity and labor, intimacy and memory, and spirituality and transcendence. The soundscapes begin with concrete, recognizable sounds, gradually becoming more abstract and surreal, leading the audience from those familiar, defined landscapes into ambiguous, undefined spaces—this final shift forms the core liminal space of the installation. Through this transition, the work explores the diluted boundaries among different kinds of space and challenges the concept that the spaces we inhabit are static and fixed.

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