Projects
cAvA
Dancer: DaeYoung An
Choreographer: Soo Yeon Cho
Photographer: HyeKyong Yun
Sound Artist: Navid Navab
Visual Arist: Jerome DeLePierre
The project is called cAvA, which is Latin for cave.This is an inter-disciplinary collaboration where augmented photography, video projection, real-time audio processing and live performance will mingle together . The piece is centered on an installation which incorporates these various mediums. The central theme of the installation is the recreation of a womb; a place to re-create our pre-natal memories.
Large scale prints on the gel-medium are brought into play via a portrait-based surrealistic photographic approach to depict the sensation of a mother’s womb and the fetus’ memories. The lace, which refers to the environment of the womb and its femininity, is used for video projection onto the installation. The use of motion sensors and detectors at various locations within the installation, would be under the control of the performer as she moves within the womb.
The performer moving within the installation is communicating with her pre-natal memories and responding to them as the memories are also responding to the state of the performer. As the dancer glides and dances within the space, the audience can see her movements from the outside through the semi-transparent gel-medium and fabric, and can hear the sounds that she provokes as she engages the motion detectors.
Following the performance, the audience would be allowed to enter the environment and re-create their own pre-natal memories.
Here + There
Photographer: HyeKyong Yun
Space: Gallerie Les Territoires
Vernissage date: November 17th 2008This exhibition is an objectification of HyeKyong's self-portraiture onto other subjects. Its focus is on Asian males in their twenties; not yet men, but no longer boys. Through their culture and upbringing, they are taught to repress their feelings, to appear emotionless. This is in sharp contrast with their natural state as they are passing through an especially chaotic time in their lives. The loss of communication between the human being and the environment that surrounds him as he searches for his identity is exposed by the subject's melancholy: a deep emptiness in his facial expression and gesture as he interacts with the world around him.
Choreographer/ Dancer: Soo Yeon Cho
Projection/ Setting Designer: JS&JC
Sound/ Live Music: Daniel Monge“GEM InI” is essentially a solo dance piece consisting of real-time video processing, video projection and sound, yet it also consists of a dance ‘duet’ wherein the solo dancer and its virtual double respond to one another or ‘quintet’, using four screens; each image on the screens including actual performer represent one person’s different characters and egos. This piece is all about a private journey searching authenticity and identity and it creates conflicts and confusion between different “I”s.
On stage, the sporadic presence of a virtual character confronts or accompanies the actual dancer, in a fashion similar to what a ghostly presence might induce. The shadow bears a lot of meaning, and may represent different parts of the choreographer’s previous life/experience. The duality created between both characters explores different avenues such as rationality vs. sensuality, superficial vs. internal, and others. The piece represents a private journey searching for authenticity and identity. This search is done through conflicts and confusion between the two egos, where one is still being influenced by its original nature and culture, and the other is being affected by new environment.
The title “GEM/InI” has several implications: first, the astral sign “Gemini”, which is characterized by having two selves; Second, “GEM” that signifies “I as a precious self”; Third, “InI”, which is like saying “I and I” or “I watching itself trough a mirror..
Run 2:30 (Loop) Single channel video installation (2007)
Artist: Jae Ok Lee
A mystery glimpse of private running unfolds and disrupts in industrialized segments of a city. The solitary runner magnifies himself in the monumental urban settings. Yet, the runner keeps his action on the infinite pathway of time and disruption with his subtle narrative. This single-channel video consists of four short sequences of probable running events, and an odd gaze investigates the metaphysical quality of such. Also, the piece unveils conceptual relationship between movement and stillness as the gaze scrutinizes spatial traces of the happened actions. In this video work, I explore various issues haunting the areas of time perceptions, quality of events, and private intimacy in urban spaces.
Choreographer: Soo Yeon Cho
Dancers: Marie Laurier, Bruna Zacka
Visual Effects: Morgan Sutherland, Freida Abtan
Setting Designer/ Lighting: Jae Ok Lee
Real time Sound: Navid NavabThe choreography is inspired by its first version of the dance work, thinking of two dancers as a presence of a character confronts or accompanies each other, in a fashion similar to what a ghostly presence might induce.
The twin only I can feel.
My ancient shadow that goes in and out with me, behind me,
next to the air I breathe,
next to my voice and to every moment I move.
"I" in the past even before I was born.
The egoistic reflection I want to run from,
The inescapable memory I cannot help
but love.Using real time video effect and sound makes the relationship of two characters strong and significant, and shows each performer being influenced by the other dancer's nature, culture, and also by new environment.