JUN Sojung: Interval. Recess. Pause.
The sensory dimension of memory and its potential to bridge individual and collective experiences.
The sensory dimension of memory and its potential to bridge individual and collective experiences.
JUN Sojung, Interval. Recess. Pause. 2017, single-channel video, stereo sound, HD, 23 min 47 sec. All rights reserved by the artist.
Interval. Recess. Pause. (2017) is based on the narrative of three Korean adoptees about memories that are undefinable visual images as they exist through other senses. These fragments are marked in their memory as unclear yet involve intense senses such as color, sound, taste and smell. JUN navigates through image, sound, narration and text, creating a sequence of connections and disconnections that generate gaps in space-time. She focuses on the sensory dimension of memory and its potential to bridge individual and collective experiences. Within the video, the memories of the three individuals are presented in a narrative form, interspersed with performative interpretations of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée (1982) by the choreographer Olivia Lioret. In this way, these individual memories, holding possibilities of loss and creation, evoke transitions and variations of the senses. Through the interpenetration of sensory perceptions, it leads to shared memories, emotions, sentiments and thoughts.
About the artist
JUN Sojung is an artist based in Seoul. Using the language of video and writing, she is interested in creating a nonlinear space-time to awake a new awareness of history and the present, and carries out experiments intersecting personal, psychological and aesthetic factors with political ones in life.
