Lurkkkking by Yunyun
Lurking: Sound Archive of Echoes
July 2025
installation
Tape drive, tapes, a total of 600 minutes
Variable size
Lurking is a 600-minute sound installation made with magnetic tape loops. It’s not music. It’s not storytelling. It’s what happens when time folds in on itself and starts to echo. Fragments of ambient sound, footfall, mechanical noise, stillness interrupted by texture.
It is a nonlinear sound archive composed of ten chapters—an installation that blends fictional prose and poetic fragments, centered around the idea of what lingers, what haunts, what doesn’t quite leave. It is both a quiet inquiry into ghostly presence and an open-ended experiment in how sound shapes space.
During my residency in Bulgaria, I collected ambient recordings, snippets of language, and traces of local folk music. These were sampled, layered, and reassembled into magnetic tape loops—each carrying its own temporal weight. Visitors are invited to play any chapter at will, creating unpredictable constellations of sound. Audio leaks beyond the speakers, drifting up stairwells, slipping out windows, seeping into the outdoor landscape.
Installation View willl be at @Heerz Tooya .
Exhibition: 25.07. – 14.08.2025
Address：Ivan Vazov 18th Str. / Stefan Stambolob 36th Str. 5000 Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
www.chencaiyun.com
@_chen_caiyun
caiyunchen2022@outlook.com
Tracklist
| 1. | Lurking (Intro) | 14:02 |
| 2. | Кавал свири (Kaval Sviri) | 14:02 |
| 3. | 废墟合欢 (Silk Tree in Ruins) | 14:02 |
| 4. | LADA | 14:02 |
| 5. | 盛夏梦呓 (Midsummer Reverie) | 14:02 |
| 6. | 晌午 (Hour of Noon) | 14:02 |
| 7. | 幽夜 (Silent Night) | 14:02 |
| 8. | 飞行器 (Aerial Vessel) | 14:02 |
| 9. | 蟋蟀交响曲 (Cricket Symphony) | 14:02 |
| 10. | Staghorn Sumac in 1948 (1948年的鹿角漆树) | 14:02 |
Credits
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Caiyun Chen, artist b.2002, graduated from the Glasgow School of Art, MFA, 2024. Since 2018, Their work has included experimental video, installations, graphics, and electronic music. The current research focuses on image reconstruction, digital intervention, hyperimage analysis, intertextual writing and interimagery, visual power, identity issues and noise practices.