Sun (Listen) is a deep listening tilismi (enchanted) environment set in a canyon with four monoliths serving as conduits of elemental memories (earth, air, water, fire). The project explores the premise of an environment that shrouds itself in a tilism (enchantment) upon our indifference to it and calls upon us, “SUN!” (listen!) –to restore and heal our connection to it.
This virtual environment design project serves as a preliminary conceptual art for Akram’s subsequent emergent media works, reimagining the South Asian Urdu language Tilismi Dastan storytelling tradition in the 21st century as part of her research-creation doctorate in Cinema and Media Studies at York University.
