Jesse Chun’s outdoor performance is titled Moon Yard Theatre: Score for Unlanguaging, realised in collaboration with Korean folk performance group Yeonhee (Kim Hyangsooree, Ahn Yoohee). The performance activates Chun's drawing installation, score for unlanguaging (천지문 and cosmos, no.042823) through reinterpretation of Korean folk sound and dance. Chun's abstract score visualizes new cosmologies of language through undoing the semiotic structures of the world's most dominant language, English. Brought to life through sound, breath, voice, folk instruments, movement, and moving image, the nocturnal communing invites non-linear passages and circularity of meaning, time, and the untranslatable.
Jesse Chun’s performance takes place on Wednesday September 4, at 10pm at the outdoor courtyard of Gallery Hyundai.
Frieze LIVE 2024 is presented in partnership with DYAD, a private members’ club launching in the heart of Cheongdam in 2025.
Credit
Performers: Jesse Chun, Yeonhee (Kim Hyangsooree, Ahn Yoohee)
Technical Team: apparat/us (Producer: Jinyoung Shin, Manager: Minsung Lee, Projection: Haein Jeong, Sound: Taesoon Jang, Sungsik Yoo)
With thanks to Gallery Hyundai, Yunu Lee and Young Chung, Commonwealth and Council.
About the artist
Jesse Chun is an artist living and working between Seoul and New York. Chun's poetics across moving image, drawing, sculpture, and sound, intimately ruminate on language and its interdimensional translations. Fracturing the dominant compositions of legibility, Chun's practice invokes alternate semiotics and cosmologies of meaning, time, and the untranslatable. Chun's work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions at the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul (KR); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (US); Art Sonje Center, Seoul; Thaddaeus Ropac, Seoul (KR); SculptureCenter, New York; The Drawing Center, NY; Ballroom Marfa, TX (United States); Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (Canada); Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK); Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul (South Korea), among others. Chun's work is in the collections of Seoul Museum of Art (KR); Museum of Modern Art Library (NY); Smithsonian Institution (DC) Archive of American Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art Library (NY); and KADIST (FR/US), among others. Chun is currently an artist in residence at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Korea (2024-25).