INTER — Jurmo is a spatial listening architecture situated on the island of Jurmo in the outer archipelago of Turku.

The work approaches listening as a shared structure between place, weather, memory, community, and the listener’s own attention. Built from recordings made with the inhabitants of Jurmo, it unfolds through a distributed field of voices, environmental sound, wind, silence, and distance.

The recordings took place over nine days in spring 2026. Thirty people. Twenty microphones. Each person their own channel. At a certain point during the gatherings, the recording situation shifted. People began remembering the island for themselves.

This shift became the conceptual foundation of the work.

The installation is situated near the chapel and cemetery of Jurmo. When sitting on the bench facing the sea, the listener enters a field where multiple temporalities coexist: the continuity held in the cemetery, the movement of weather and sea, and the living voices of those who continue inhabiting the island.

The work stays close to these conditions.

The sound is distributed through hand cast concrete cowl speakers placed directly into the rocky landscape. Their form draws from marine ventilation structures: channels that connect spaces rather than point in a single direction.

The structures are designed to recede.

They function less as sound objects and more as channels through which place, memory, weather, and human presence can remain audible together. Their surfaces are finished with soil from Jurmo itself, allowing them to weather and slowly merge with the island over time.

When the voices recede, the island remains: wind, sea, distance, open horizon. This field already exists. The work makes it perceptible.

Beneath the bench, a second layer opens through headphones. A spoken narration moves alongside the installation, close to the same movement between memory, listening, and environment.

The listener is one presence among others within a shared perceptual field.

Developed in collaboration with the John Nurminen Foundation.

Opening: 16 June 2026
On view: Summer–September 2026

Opening: 16 June 2026 On view: Summer–September 2026