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MEDIA LIST


Claytech,
Video, 3mins, editing: 2010
 

My performance was exploring Art/Technology issues related to Clay

The event was performed on December 5th, 2009 @ 1500 N. Damen Ave. in Chicago, IL 60622.

Time: 7-9 p.m.

Creator: Mi-yeon

Sound Design by JayVe Montgomery

Instinct participants: Robert Weatherington, Micheal Moholland

Editing: Paul Richter/ Mi-yeon Kwon

Narrator: Spencer Hutchinson, Mi-yeon Kwon

Narration: Clay is one of the oldest materials used by humans in history. The process of creating art objects with clay takes extreme care and is a long and delicate process. This naturally occurring material is composed primarily of fine-grained minerals, which impart plasticity when wet and harden when fired and/or dried. Organic materials, which do not impart plasticity, may also be a part of clay deposits. This very scientific yet primitive way of making art is arguably as vital now as it was thousands of years ago.

 

How are artists using this primitive material to make contemporary art? Artists have never created something from nothing. My performance is about creating art through discovering and expressing, from a different perspective, materials and technology we already have. To discover and express new art with old methods and materials, a strict definition is elusive; "technology" can refer to both objects of a modern or technically sophisticated nature, such as machines, hardware or utensils, but it can also be used to describe less tangible ‘objects’ with equally pragmatic applications, including systems, methods of organization, and techniques related to object creation.

 

I dressed as if a loan officer who used to work there but the business is no longer exist. Wheel throwing performance descoverd sound by waterproof contact microphone attaced to the wheel. JayVe Montgomery performed improvisational sound.

 

Branch Project / 2012

Excutive director: Mi-yeon Kwon

Video, 3mins.

edited: Prsk-sis volunteers in 2012

 

This video is mainly focused on the Branch Project which is a part of North Center Art Festival ran by Prak Sis Contemporary Art Association. The festival's theme was "Artist & Self", featuring visual artwork, time-based artwork, and experimental music. The festival was centered around Prak-Sis's main location at 1917 W. Irving Park Road in the heart of Chicago's North Center neighborhood. Additional festival venues included local businesses, galleries, and storefronts. The goal of the festival was to give artists an opportunity to display their work in a public space and gallery and to help enrich the artistic community of the North Center neighborhood.


 

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