<Make Sound Being Seen>

2021
Performance
9 mins

퍼포먼스
9분

Sound dedicated by Benedict Skhemlang
ICSSR, Shillong, India

ICSSR센터, 실롱, 인도

I often choose unusual spaces as exhibition places and performance stages, such as abandoned places and atriums of a building, to interpret them into an exhibition hall, planning a unique viewing experience by setting a rule invisible to the viewer, and finally adding narratives to work, which makes the viewing experience interactive.

<Make Sound Being Seen> is a performance expression of the confusion that comes from the absence of rules and promises encountered in India, and a multi-layered examination of the cognitive system caused by the confusion.

“In India, the tea offered to me as chai, which is consumed more frequently than water, turned out to be the same milk tea enjoyed in England. There, cricket was not a sport for the British elite but a game played by local children, much like a casual playground activity. Moreover, what I perceived as a three-lane road was, for them, a five-lane road. The sight of cars yielding to cows or goats instead of people, with the basic rules and agreements rendered meaningless, was pure chaos.” - Yihwa Kim

I often choose unusual spaces as exhibition places and performance stages, such as abandoned places and atriums of a building, to interpret them into an exhibition hall, planning a unique viewing experience by setting a rule invisible to the viewer, and finally adding narratives to work, which makes the viewing experience interactive.

<Make Sound Being Seen> is a performance expression of the confusion that comes from the absence of rules and promises encountered in India, and a multi-layered examination of the cognitive system caused by the confusion.

“In India, the tea offered to me as chai, which is consumed more frequently than water, turned out to be the same milk tea enjoyed in England. There, cricket was not a sport for the British elite but a game played by local children, much like a casual playground activity. Moreover, what I perceived as a three-lane road was, for them, a five-lane road. The sight of cars yielding to cows or goats instead of people, with the basic rules and agreements rendered meaningless, was pure chaos.” - Yihwa Kim