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Live Performances: Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7
Saturdays 8 & 15 September, 9pm
La Monte Young,
voice
Marian Zazeela, voice
Jung Hee Choi, voice
Sine wave
frequencies
"I found Jung Hee Choi's installation Ahata
Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest moving and engrossing... the effect of
[Choi's] work is mesmerizing. I believe that this use of drawing with
the moving light projections of her video works represents a new and
original direction in art today."
–Jon Hendricks,
Silverman Fluxus Collection
MELA Foundation presents Jung Hee
Choi's Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest VI, illuminating various
aspects of recent works and their relationships across different media.
Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest VI features four
large-scale multimedia installations, and a new sound environment,
Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version with La Monte Young,
Marian Zazeela, and Jung Hee Choi improvising over the implied tonic that
is imperceptibly changing. The relationship of the improvisations to the
drone continuously elaborates the musical meaning of the pitch. This
exhibition premieres the installation works Composition 2012 #2
and Composition 2012 #3 created with Light Point Drawings
on black wrap with video. The drawings are viewed as indiscernibly moving
light from video projection glowing through the pinholes creating abstract
and analogous representation of "Manifest Unmanifest."
Choi
writes: "This series of environmental compositions involves the concept of
'Manifest, Unmanifest' created with various media including video, drawing,
incense, performance, and sound. This synthesis of expression collectively
creates an intersubjective space as a unified continuum. In rejecting our
current mode of perception that stresses 'sight' as the primary model of
organizing the sensorium, this series of works emphasizes the totality of
sense perceptions as a single unit to create a state of immersion. It is
especially meaningful for me to show in the Dream House space
because my work has evolved from the visionary inspiration of La Monte
Young and Marian Zazeela. Exhibition audiences may experience Young and
Zazeela's concept of eternity taking a form of ephemeral presence that is
infinitely variable while flowing from the principles they have
delineated."
About Jung Hee Choi
Utilizing
traditional and experimental techniques, Jung Hee Choi has worked in a
variety of media presenting series of environmental compositions involving
the concept of "Manifest, Unmanifest" created with video, drawing, incense,
performance, and sound. Choi's work has been presented in the U.S., Europe,
and Asia, including MELA Foundation and Guggenheim Museum Dream
Houses, NYC; l'ERBA de Besançon, France; Berliner Festspiele,
Germany; FRESH Festival, Bangkok; 8th Korea Experimental Arts Festival,
Korea. Commissioned by MELA Foundation, her video sound performance and
installation, RICE, set in Zazeela's Imagic Light environment
was chosen as one of The 10 Best of 2003 in the December Artforum.
In 1999, Choi became a disciple of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela in
the study of music and art, with the classical Kirana tradition gandha
bandh red-thread ceremony in 2003. In 2002, with Young and Zazeela
she became a founding member of The Just Alap Raga Ensemble and has
performed as vocalist in every concert, including the MELA Dream
House, 2009 Yoko Ono Courage Award Ceremony, Merce Cunningham Memorial,
and MaerzMusik Festival.
Choi graduated summa cum laude from
NYU. She received The Experimental Television Center's Finishing
Funds 2006 award. Choi's in-depth interview is featured in the online
Asian Contemporary Art Week presentations organized by Asia Society, NY.
Choi appeared as guest artist and lecturer at the School of Visual Art, NYC
and École supérieure d'art de Mulhouse, France.
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