Audible Impact, 2022

Artificial turf, Arduino, pressure sensors, sound Module

40 x 30 x 6 cm

Audible Impact is an interactive sound installation activated by a pressure-sensing system and situated in high-traffic urban spaces, such as convenience stores and commercial entrances.

At dusk, the artificial turf rug becomes a social-psychological probe into the behaviors of passersby. Each footstep triggers visceral, anthropomorphic screams of distress from the grass beneath. While avoiding stepping on lawns is a deeply ingrained social convention, reframing grass as a domestic rug subverts this behavioral code, turning an ordinarily prohibited act into an almost automatic, everyday gesture.

Through this site-specific intervention in urban settings such as Sanlitun, the work examines the fragility of social norms and confronts the latent impulse toward destruction embedded in everyday human behavior.