img: Minsun Kim, (Im-)possibility of listening and speaking at the same time
img: Eunho Yoo, A Space for Mourning
Saturday 17 June
15:30—15:45 Meshkat Talebi and Olivier
Terpstra, Borders Are an Imaginary
Line, live performance, 15
min.
Throughout
the performance, the artists will address the possibility of personal memories
emerging in the public realm and how they can be used to address, question, and
criticize broader topics such as politics, nationality, mother tongue, and the
imaginary lines between West and East. Talebi and Terpstra challenge themselves
to enact their working process live, sharing their dialogue of personal
narrative, embodied language, shared sonic spaces and gestures in a bid to
activate language, body and memory together with the audience.
16:00—16:15 Minsun Kim, (Im-)possibility of
listening and speaking at the same time, performance, 15 min.
Minsun has been making performative propositions
over the past period with simultaneous interpretation as a medium. The
simultaneous interpreter refers to the role of artists in transferring thoughts
and senses. In particular, artists who are non-native English speakers who
constantly have to translate themselves on the stage of contemporary
(international) art, a single layer of time led by the dominant perspective and
language. The simultaneous interpreter should not only speak but also listen.
In other words, not only do they have to translate between different languages
but also have to drive different senses of listening and speaking at the same
time. Beyond being a speaker and listener, a triangular formation emerges in
which the simultaneous interpreter must listen, transmit, and speak to what is
heard from the speaker to the listener. No matter how professional the
interpreter is, there is no completely simultaneous synchronization.
Simultaneous interpretation has always a subtle, but certain delay. By
stretching this moment of delay, she seeks to shed light on the inherent
impossibility of contemporary art as a monolithic, homogenous entity.
Ultimately, she is questioning what we mean when we refer to ‘contemporary’
art?
17:00—17:20 Eunho Yoo, A Space for Mourning,
performance, 20 min.
Eunho Yoo performs
the Salpuri dance as a form of mourning, to commemorate victims of
tragedies in Korean history. The Salpuri dance is a traditional Korean dance
known for its deep capacity to transform one’s sorrow into creative
expression. By channeling one’s emotion into performance, the challenges of
grief and despair can be sublimated into beauty and an innate sense of joy.
During her performance, she draws the white chrysanthemum, a symbol
of mourning in Korean culture. Eunho Yoo provides a space for those whose
ability to mourn is restricted. She offers a chance to grieve and commemorate.
img: Vlada Predelina, Activation 1: Taking from the table