Artistic Statement

 "I am a multidisciplinary artist whose practice reimagines the gayageum—Korea’s iconic traditional instrument—as a living bridge between past and future, tradition and transformation. My work moves across performance art, installation, and contemporary composition, using sound and embodied gesture to question inherited structures and to propose new ways of listening.

 Central to my practice is the idea that rupture can generate renewal. In Practice (2024), the gayageum becomes a metaphor for generational conflict, played not in its conventional form but through movement, dance, and raw physicality. By breaking away from established customs, the work blurs the line between tradition and modernity, asking how repetition and improvisation can form new cultural habits.

 This inquiry extends to projects such as Alternative, developed during the BigCi residency in Australia, where a gayageum collapses in a fire-scorched forest and is rebuilt with stones, seeds, and branches. The resulting sounds—unfamiliar, fragile, resonant—could not exist without the prior collapse. Through such acts of deconstruction and reconstruction, I invite audiences to imagine sonic landscapes that embody both loss and renewal.

 My artistic language is rooted in ecological listening, embodied inquiry, and the poetic transformation of materials. Whether addressing intergenerational tensions or environmental urgencies, I seek to position the gayageum not as a relic of the past but as a dynamic collaborator in shaping contemporary life and alternative futures."