Bespoke Walpaper Music
Young Eun Keem
18.9.2014 – 25.9.2014 7PM
Cake Galery
Solomon Building
The artist, Young Eun Keem presents three performance pieces regarding sound and space on the first floor, in the elevator and on the sixth floor of the Solomon Building in Bespoke Walpaper Music. The Solomon Building possesses unique architectural qualities. In the shape of a fan, the building consists of six stories, and on each floor exist smal rooms in layers, as if each room hides other rooms behind it. This performance piece actively utilizes spaces that are thus hidden. They are the smal rooms beyond the wals, the veranda circumnavigating the building’s exterior and, lastly, the elevator as a space that hides.
I presume sound-space belongs to unfamiliar territory for most audience members. Attempts to describe sound or hearing have occasionaly been made from scientific points of view, but research on the acoustic sphere’s relationship to culture and history remains a relatively newfield. Therefore, delineating acoustic experiences was the most difficult part in organizing this performance, too. In reverse, such facts also suggest that various cultural contexts we could experience and form relationships with at the sensorial level of acoustics are precluded from being accessed. If one agrees that the senses are formed much like one’s identity, it is to be hoped that person wil also be able to reconsider what is already given in our senses, furthermore our bodies, which are formed culturaly, socialy and historicaly, through this experience regarding sound-spaces.
| Min Hwa Yun
