Phonic Formosa

Based on the ideas related to sounds and voices as a story vector, which Julie Vacher devoted to, ‘Phonic Formosa’ combines sound synthesis, hybridization between real world sound recordings and electronic music or the mix of voices are as many ways to strengthen space intensity, to give more density and color to a narration. The video art tends to welcome those practices, which Julie Vacher wants to explore with the following project.

In ‘Phonic Formosa’, a traveler wanders in searching for a stone. On the way of her trip, she will meet some people telling her the possible locations of this stone, including mountains, islands, and villages. The context is freely inspired by the chapter ‘City and Memory’ in “Invisible Cities”. This book, written in 1972 by Italo Calvino, is a miscellany of cities’ descriptions : while some are ruled by physical principles (city without gravity, city built under the ground), others work by phenomenon of the mind (city of mnemonic, city of memory).

‘Phonic Formosa’ is a project of “International Artist in Residence Exhibition,” and is produced in France (image-filming in France) and Taiwan (Mandarin, Hakka and aboriginal language).