DYSTOPIE Sound Art Festival 2020 Berlin-Brazil, Alte Münze, Berlin, Germany, 2020
DYSTOPIE Sound Art Festival 2020 Berlin-Brazil, Alte Münze, Berlin, Germany, 2020
"A start is followed by end, always.
The beginning and the end.
We are standing in between."
"Can I go back? No, you can not, not, not.
It was only for once, just like your being."
An excerpt from <Breath>, 2019
DYSTOPIE Sound Art Festival Berlin-Brazil, Alte Münze, Berlin, Germany, 2020
Breath
Immersive audio drama installation, 10-channel audio with 22 speakers, 2-channel video, 8-channel lighting system with 11 lights, 00:12:00, 2019
Nomination: In the German selection (GNM) and official submit to international jury for ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music) World Music Days 2020 (Host country: New Zealand), Section Federal Republic of Germany of the International Society for Contemporary Music, Berlin, Germany, 2019 https://member.iscm.org/catalogue/works/oh-hyun-ju-breath
Group show “DYSTOPIE Sound Art Festival Berlin-Brazil”, Alte Münze, Berlin, Germany, 2020
Solo show “Breath” - as part of the Frequenz Festival 2022, Anscharpark Campus, Kiel, Germany, 2022
# Memory
# Isolation and Escape
EN)
<Breath> is an audio drama-based installation. The story starts with a person failing to make an escape from a real room, with the audience overhearing every move. Further abstract situations are developed to a narrative and spatialized through objects, location-specific sounds, and lighting, while the 10-channel sound installed around the space enables us to follow the activities of the person in the audio drama.
The situations in both the virtual and actual space are psychologically and emotionally merged to soundscapes by the main character. At the same time, the main character interacts with the objects and media in the installation. The imaginary space created from sound-illustrated situations combined with audio drama can be understood as a metaphor for our psycho-emotional space.
In addition, the space works like a stage for the audience: Visitors are encouraged to further develop situations in their imagination or, inspired by the performative sounds, to personally interact.
DE)
<Breath> ist eine auf einem Hörspiel basierende Installation. Die Geschichte beginnt mit einer Person, der es nicht gelingt, aus einem realen Raum zu entkommen, wobei das Publikum jede Bewegung mitbekommt. Weitere abstrakte Situationen werden zu einer Erzählung entwickelt und durch Objekte, ortsspezifische Klänge und Beleuchtung verräumlicht, während der im Raum installierte 10-Kanal-Sound es uns ermöglicht, die Aktivitäten der Person im Hörspiel zu verfolgen.
Die Situationen sowohl im virtuellen als auch im realen Raum werden von der Hauptfigur psychologisch und emotional zu Soundscapes verschmolzen. Gleichzeitig interagiert die Hauptfigur mit den Objekten und Medien in der Installation. Der imaginäre Raum, der aus klanglich illustrierten Situationen in Kombination mit dem Hörspiel entsteht, kann als Metapher für unseren psycho-emotionalen Raum verstanden werden.
Darüber hinaus funktioniert der Raum wie eine Bühne für das Publikum: Die Besucher sind aufgefordert, Situationen in ihrer Vorstellung weiterzuentwickeln oder, inspiriert durch die performativen Klänge, selbst zu interagieren.
KR)
<Breath>는 오디오 드라마를 기반으로 한 멀티미디어 설치 작품으로, 공간 주위에 설치된 10ch 오디오를 통해 오디오 드라마의 주인공 행위와 위치를 파악할 수 있다.
오브제와 위치별 사운드, 조명을 통해 공간화된 이 작품은 각 추상적인 상황/장면들이 가상공간과 실제공간의 상황 안에서 주인공의 심리적, 정서적 공간에 대한 은유인 사운드 스케이프로 이해될 수 있다.
또한 관객은 전시 공간을 연극 무대와 같이 느낄 수 있게 된다. 이 작품은 오브제/사운드 씬 간의 상호작용 뿐만 아니라, 관객의 상상 속에서 드라마가 진행되는 사운드와 함께 보이지 않는 주인공과의 정서적 상호작용을 유도한다.
Frequenz Festival 2022, Anscharpark Haus 3 (ruins of the former german naval hospital during World War I and II), Kiel, Germany, 2022
(Photo: Mathis Hanke)
"Like your unique existence in this world. The present time and the past time is one-of-a-kind.
So therefore, people do have regrets, or do they?"
An excerpt from <Breath>, 2019
Anscharpark Haus 3, Kiel, Germany (Photo: Mathis Hanke)
"Breath" by Hyunju Oh is an installation audio drama whose scenographic approach includes not only sound and video, but also sound spots, barricades, neon lights, broken mirrors and doors. This work goes beyond the definition of sound art and immerses the audience in a dystopian parallel world where sound is only one of many layers that make up our perception of space.
"Breath" von Hyunju Oh ist ein installatives Hörspiel, dessen szenografischer Ansatz nicht nur Klang und Video, sondern auch Klangspots, Barrikaden, Neonlichter, zerbrochene Spiegel und Türen umfasst. Dieses Werk geht über die Definition von Klangkunst hinaus und lässt das Publikum in eine dystopische Parallelwelt eintauchen, in der der Klang nur eine von vielen Schichten ist, die unsere Wahrnehmung des Raums ausmachen.
오현주의 'Breath'는 음향과 영상뿐 아니라 사운드 스팟, 바리케이드, 네온사인, 부서진 거울, 문 등을 시노그래픽적으로 접근한 설치 오디오 드라마 입니다. 이 작품은 사운드아트의 정의를 넘어 사운드가 공간에 대한 우리의 인식을 구성하는 많은 레이어 중 하나일 뿐인 디스토피아 평행 세계에 관객을 몰입시킵니다.
Nico Daleman - Sound Artist, Musicologist and Sonic Researcher
Klangkunst - Utopien: MusikTexte 168, 2/2021, 89–90
Frequenz Festival 2022, Anscharpark Haus 3, Kiel, Germany, 2022 (Photo: Mathis Hanke)
About the project space at Frequenz Festival 2022:
EN)
The exhibition space in Anscharpark is a historical venue which originated as a naval hospital in Germany and was used during World War I and II. During the Second World War, the hospital was bombed several times.
After World War II, the building continued to be used as a hospital by the the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel until 2004. Since then, some of the buildings reamin as historical ruins.
DE)
Der Ausstellungsraum im Anscharpark ist ein historischer Ort, der ursprünglich ein deutsches Marinelazarett war und während des Ersten und Zweiten Weltkriegs genutzt wurde. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurde das Krankenhaus mehrfach bombardiert.
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde das Gebäude bis 2004 von der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel weiter als Krankenhaus genutzt. Seitdem stehen einige der Gebäude als historische Ruinen wieder zur Verfügung.
KR)
Anscharpark의 전시 공간은 독일 해군 병원으로 시작되어 제1, 2차 세계 대전 중에 사용된 역사적 장소이다. 이 병원은 제2차 세계 대전 중에 여러 번의 폭격을 맞기도 하였다.
제2차 세계 대전 후, 이 건물은 2004년 까지 독일 킬의 Christian Albrechts University 에서 대학 병원 일부로 사용되었다. 그 이후로 일부 건물은 현재까지 역사적 폐허 유적지로 남아 있다.
Frequenz Festival 2022, Anscharpark Haus 3, Kiel, Germany, 2022 (Photo: Mathis Hanke)
Credits:
Installation:
Prototype: “Ende vom Albtram” - Exhibition “Zwischenraum” at the Raumschiff, Linz, Austria, 2017
Concept by Hyunju Oh
Script: Hyunju Oh
Object design: Hyunju Oh
Space design: Hyunju Oh
Performer of audio drama: Hyunju Oh
Narration of audio drama: Asma Lamiri
Sound recording: Hyunju Oh
Sound composition: Hyunju Oh
Sound design: Hyunju Oh
Sound editing: Hyunju Oh
*1st video (2017)
Film shooting, sound recording, sound design, editing: Hyunju Oh
*2nd video (2019)
Film shooting, voice, sound recording, sound design, editing: Hyunju Oh
VFX: Hyeonjeong Oh
*3rd video (2019)
Film shooting, editing: Hyunju Oh
Audio, Video, Lighting System Programming: Hyunju Oh
Thanks to: Arnold Dreyblatt, Petra Maria Meyer, Andrea van der Straeten, Reza Ghadyani, Ilseong Oh, Monja Lalotra
Documentation:
Shooting, sound recording, editing, photo: Hyunju Oh (2020)
Photo: Mathis Hanke (2022)
Production funding & support (2020 Version):
DYSTOPIE sound art festival
Production funding & support (2022 Version):
Arts Council Korea
Frequenz Festival