Music & Film
by Tim Feeney
Mail Art
about the art
Tim Feeney (film and sound) and Naomi Nakazato (multimedia art) use landscape and natural materials to explore questions of memory and belonging. Their works turn to the terrains around us, asking how we situate ourselves within the histories we inhabit and inherit.
As a sound artist and composer, Tim explores environments as instruments, listening for what they carry of history, ancestry, and language. His sound film Contour Lines is part of a larger project in which he sonically investigated the eroded landscapes of Burren in County Clare, Ireland—both through physical study of the area’s properties and, as he describes, “an attempt as an Irish-American to reckon with language, archaeology, and colonial history felt as formative but inarticulable without lived context.” His film presents an eroded terrace on the side of Mullach Mór—a 600-foot limestone summit—with wind- and rain-soaked sonic interventions that engage the site’s acoustic, geologic, and archaeologic properties.
Across her practice, Naomi works with materials, landscapes, and memory to explore the complex in-between of her biracial experience. Naomi’s Void Study 2 prints a map-like landscape onto seaweed laver, a surface that resists ink and slowly decays. Maps promise accuracy and certainty, but here the fragility of the image points to the fallibility of collective memory and questions how we navigate histories, home, and the search for belonging. Through this layered ground, Naomi opens a space where absence, identity, and the possibility of return can be continually rewritten.
Experienced together, these works suggest a dialogue across time scales, seeking understanding and reckoning with heritage and belonging. Both invite us to consider how landscapes hold us, and how memory is carried as it both endures and slips away.