Trans-Obon Festival

“Trans-Obon Festival” reimagines the Japanese Obon as a seamless passage into the otherworld. In Japan, Obon is a summer festival in which ancestral spirits are believed to return, welcomed with fire and dance before being sent back to the beyond. It can be regarded as one of the rituals that most deeply embodies the Japanese spiritual sensibility. This work transforms that cyclical ceremony into a drifting festival without boundaries, portraying a shifting seam where memory, light, and spectral, anomalous presences intertwine. AI generated sound and AI remixed voice by All-AI-1 (udio)