I'M JUST A DOG

I'M JUST A DOG is a sound installation created during an artist residency at Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien in Berlin, supported by Tokyo Wonder Site. In this work, we conducted interviews with people we encountered in the city, asking them to share a story from their daily life—but with an unusual request: they were to respond using only the sound of a dog's bark. This seemingly nonsensical act intentionally breaks away from the conventional framework of communication, suspending the everyday function of language and questioning how meaning is formed in the first place. The installation features ten black dog sculptures, each paired with a speaker and a hanging light. When a barking voice (a human voice disguised in the form of a dog's bark) plays from a speaker, the corresponding light flickers on, illuminating the dog and casting its shadow across the room. These sounds and lights interact to create a fragmented rhythm and a shifting sense of presence within the space. Although this improvised language lacks clear meaning or grammar, the tone, breath, and pauses in the voices subtly reveal each person's emotions, hesitation, and character. It is through this absence of explicit meaning that imagination is invited in, opening a new field of perception. "Everyday life, spoken in the voice of a dog" — this work seeks to explore the richness hidden in ambiguity, misalignment, and noise. In doing so, it turns away from a reality dominated by logic and efficiency, and gestures instead toward new forms of connection and sensation. What emerges here is not the absence of communication, but the beginning of feeling.