Key Projects

Encounter : Part 1

“Silent and yet we have a great discussion within, struggling with an imaginary partner or with ourselves…..” Exploring silence as a way of communication beyond words, thoughts, and situations, The Encounter: PartⅠ creates both an on-going live conversation and a live film simultaneously. The Encounter: PartⅠ experiments with the idea of how we perceive silence as well as how we respond to silence. It will be explored through the relationship between the experience and the projected image. It is a way of examining a gap between the real and the perception of silence, and between the practitioner and the observer, and between the observer and the observed.

Why do you live a life?

Why do you live a life? consists of the performer’s repetitive action against the background sound of two audio loops. The audio loops involve interview footage of Londoners recorded in the city responding to the question ‘why do you live a life?’ and the recorded sound of the performer’s breathing. The interviewer’s question often provoked a tense response among people interrupted in their daily repetitive routine and this tension during the interviewing process is expressed in the live space by the performer’s action.

Colour is Just Colour

Colour is Just Colour is a performance installation piece, which starts with a cleansing ritual of hands washing with a black soap. This creates a meditative moment for everybody to think about our history of conflict caused by the racial difference. Then, the performer offers the audience the opportunity to consider world peace by placing a colored origami flower given into a bowl of water.

On your way

On Your Way is an audience participatory performance and installation about tracing the way of life through the objects of audiences’ shoes. It consists of both ordinary objects and actions in the form of ritual in order to attach a philosophical question to audiences’ mundane lives. It is documented with a Polaroid camera, questioning about memories and presence of the moment. There is a red carpet called ‘a stage of a life’ in the space. The participants are asked to walk around this carpet for about five minutes and leave their shoes where they finish. The facilitator then asks participants to pose for a photo as above but takes a photo of their shoes as below.

Try Me

Try me is a performance installation work, creating poetic visual images and using domestic objects and movements about human rights. It shows how slavery both transforms a human body into a product and violates human rights, intending to remind the audience of the histories with which we are still struggling. There are two performers visible through the shop windows, stood like mannequins. As the show is initiated by a member of the audience, each performer starts doing domestic actions and singing lullabies until they are buried by either cushion or sugar.

......(six dots)

SIX DOTS is a sound-image performance using Korean indigenous music and photographs documenting family tragedies from the Korean War. The performance involves the desparate devouring rice balls and attempted washing of a blood stained sheet, which is then used as a screen for the photographs. My intention is to raise public awareness of the ongoing issues surrounding the leagacy of the Korean War.