Oceanic Ruins was a site-specific sonic performative exercise held on May 22, 2023, at Horace's Villa—a large ancient Roman villa complex near Licenza-Rome, Italy. This ruined villa is associated with the Roman poet Horace and his numerous poems about the place. The special elaborate architectural features and location of the villa correspond to the descriptions in the poetry.

In crafting the Oceanic Ruins performative exercise, my aim was to create an intertwining between the past and the present. Through the resonance of the mobile megaphone transported through Horace's Villa, the timeless echoes of today's Mediterranean sound resonated and vibrated with the Roman imperial heritage infrastructure. This act served as a sonic-tension between ancient imperial heritage and the contemporary complexity of the mobilities of people passing through the same sea. The performative action was intended to evoke a nuanced understanding where the waves of the past and present converge in the same urban landscape.