Fundraising for Map of the Heart, Chicago @ Kickstarter was successful and now I’m in search of securing a public venue for it’s installation in Spring 2012. Below is one of the ideal spot for the piece, a giant touch screen in Clark/Lake train stop inside Thompson Center. If you know any contact arranging the place, please contact me! hoyunson@gmail.com Thank you for all your support!
Hoyun Son
Social Shedding, is a site-responsive performance with a garment constructed from traditional Korean funereal fiber interweaved with a spiraling zipper, allowing the dress to alter shape and transform. The performance generates a delicate dynamic between strangers and myself that shifts according to the social locus. Depending on the environment or locale, whether it be a nightclub, opera house, or art opening, I become a different object/subject and point of interaction opening up new dialogue.
Map of the Heart is a series of participatory, public art projects combining true stories and the collective imagination of the individuals of a community to develop audience-interactive visual fictions: an interactive photo book, and an interactive, public performance with a wearable constructed with photos and text.
The process begins by following 20– 30 participants of each city through their daily activities and take photos and collect their stories.
It begins on a very personal, individual level and develops outward into the community in which it occurs to explore each person’s relationship with their social environment.
The project has been done in Sandnes, Norway; Santa Fe, NM, USA; and Chicago,IL, USA is in progress. To follow up with the process of the project, please visit http://maphearts.wordpress.com/
In Collaboration with Jung A. Woo
Movable Feast is a public art project developed by artists Hoyun Son & Jung-A Woo in 2009, that maps a diverse cultural landscape through food.
Through out our Artist in Residency with Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in summer 2011, the artists, youth group-Latin America Community Center (LACC), and horticulture society will research and gather local edible weeds; collect, map, and illustrate recipes from family, friends, and neighbors; plan and design a Feast Event-cook and share food with the public in and around a mobile kitchen built by the community. During the process, Movable Feast activities has been documented by the participants on a collaborative website.
For more information: https://sites.google.com/site/movablefeastlacc/
It is a site-specific, interactive voice installation: parody of Speech Recognition Technology. Through the use of voice recognition customer service systems incorporated with the site-specific subjects, it brings out the frustration of miscommunication between human and machine and/or human with different linguistic and social backgrounds in a humorous approach.
“FYI, For Your Information, which is repeated in a few inconspicuous places all over the gallery. The installations consist of constructed information phone booths, appropriately colored in red and white. Upon picking up the receiver and becoming an active participant in the installation, one is confronted with an automated recorded system much like most telephonic customer service centers. Proceeding through the voice prompts that Hoyun Son has created, it becomes apparent that the entire piece acts as an analysis of what it means to be American. Such an issue is extremely apropos of the current political climate within this country, but would be thought provoking and meaningful regardless. Hoyun Son has reconstructed a now commonplace experience into social commentary that is so superbly subtle that it is entirely unsettling.” (from review by Tara Foster,2006)
Art by Hoyun Son
Voice by Andre King, Angela Mobley, Dave Hudson, Hoyun Son, Irina Botea, Jozef Amado, Megan McGrath, Nestor Batres, Onyango Oketch, Peggy Major, Rasvan Botea, Rodrick Major, Sharon Younger
In collaboration with Charles Gaines
Black Ghost Blues Redux is a single channel video piece made in collaboration with Charles Gaines. It is featuring a woman, myself, who is listening to Lightnin’ Hopkins (American Blues musician from 60s) classic, intently while the recording plays. When the song ends, the woman, a Korean, begins to sing Hopkins’s tune acapella. Black Ghost Blues Redux visits the idea of the politics that is at the foundation of the conversion of cultures brought on both by the history of colonialism and slavery. It locates a history shared by Black and Korean cultures even though each culture’s narrative is quite different. It sees that history as a starting point of a new narrative rather than just a reminder of that history.
Video by: Charles Gaines and Hoyun Son
Music by: Lightnin’ Hopkins (1966), Performance by: Hoyun Son, Edited by: Yanira Cartagena and Diego J. Garza, Camera: Christopher Caroll, Sound: Lydua Greer
“unspoken_series” is a site-responsive public performance, the artist uses text spelled out with LEDs on the backs of orange safety vests as a means of communication not an authority. The performance happens in public spaces like subway, social scenes like gallery openings where public etiquette filters out individual feelings and interaction. The texts subtly provoke the private space between individuals, for example “ I want to fart, make me happy!” brings strangers together from sharing giggles to even conversations. Hoyun uses the technology as a mediator to connect an individual to an individual in public.
“Couples in Action” is a contemporary art project that adapts the use of collective creative imaginations and performance in everyday life in conjunction with tools from technology-oriented society. Collective creative imaginations will allow the each individual to express their unconventional desire in their relationship and combine the imaginations satisfying both parties. It will integrate into your communication broadening …the horizon of their relationship and deepening the quality of the relationship. Performance in everyday life is a method of delivering thoughts and emotions collected from “collective creative imaginations”. This performance is not scripted nor is staged, but giving you a chance to freely experience “what ifs” of your and your partner’s imagination.
Throughout the duration of the project, the artist stayed with the couple of concern in their home and acted as an initiator and facilitator of the process; documenting and listening to their thoughts, collecting their imaginations, helping them decide what persona is best to perform, monitoring their performances and giving daily feedback of the performance and it’s effects on their “actual” relationship.
The project is documented on the follow blog:
This gallery contains 44 photos.
Process of Map of the Heart
