Mirrors on four stands rotate at high speed, reflecting lasers trained on them to project text onto the surrounding walls. The projected texts are all taken from an 1850s geography textbook, posing simple yet universal questions. The sounds of voices reading the texts are emitted from rotating parametric speakers, becoming highly directional beams of sound that travel around the room. In contrast to the discourses that surround it, the centre of the room is an empty space – a place that exists nowhere, but at the same time a place that could be anywhere. We live in a time of post-truth and liminal spaces. The centre is void.

Based on the installation, a live remix version, 2022: remix, was also presented on 30th November 2022, Teatro Goldoni, Venice (IT).

The Japan Pavilion exhibition will be rebuilt to be adapted to the Artizon Museum in Tokyo as 2022: remap from 25 February to 14 May 2023.