"grappa variation" is a 4-channel sound installation contains field recordings made by yan jun and friends. they were asked to point a position for the recorder/microphone and pronounce "grappa" during this 2 minutes field recordings.

exhibited during KONFRONTATIONEN festival 2016, nickelsdorf, austria
thanx klaus filip and noid.

exhibition text:
The piece is an answer to the topic of this exhibition "why are we still here?”. It contains some short pieces of voice with field recordings, or recordings of voice on site. Each speaker of the voices has to decide his/her opportune time to interpose the voice into the environment. For me as a Chinese, it is so difficult to speak this word correctly in German, or Italian, even in English. This is a very political problem, isn't it? So let's solve it in a political way, cheers!

credit:
developed from previous work “At A Cafe House” in which Klaus Filip and Noid illustrating the pronunciation of "grappa" for me. that recording was included in Yan Jun's field recording album "Mars Tour Diary", 2010, Art World.
voice and field recording contributed by: 8GG, Berno Oto Polzer, DJ Phaks, Edward Sanderson, Eric Mattson, Irina, Feng Shuo, Kåkon Lindbaack, Lea Schneider, Li Chaolin, Luca Forcucci, Mattin, Mei Zhiyong, Olaf Hochherz, Sandra Bobersky, Song Yuzhe, Sun Wei, Tillmann Severin, Yan Jun, Yuen Cheewai, Zhao Hengheng and Zhu Wenbo