Mooa Seongah Kang Portfolio
So please listen, and just hear me Viewing Room
Tracey Emin V-Box WYE
2019 Professional Work [ Artist Group Dotavi ] Location : PRO/RATA Art Viewing Room, Seoul Client : PRO/RATA Art Sponsor : Artivive Concept : Self-confession, Feminism Role : Curation, Production
V-Box: Voyeurism Box
WYE : What You Expect
The exhibition So please listen, and just hear me is sponsored by PRO/RATA Art and curated by Dotavi. The exhibition focuses on healing function of the art and displays the works of Tracey Emin, a feminist artist representing Britain, and of Korean women artists, under the theme of ‘self-confession art.’ As a special exhibition organized in connection with a Tracey Emin painting I wanted to go with you - to Another world, five works in total were exhibited including three works by Dotavi (V-box, WYE, V-screen) produced in homage to Tracey Emin’s works and a VR art work by a multimedia artist Kang Ji-young.
So please listen, and just hear me
V-Box : Voyeurism Box 2019 Professional Work [ Artist Group Dotavi ] Type : Multimedia Furniture-Sculpture Concept : Voyeurism Role : Art director, Idea Suggestion, Fabrication Size : 450 x 450 x 700 (mm) / 3 pieces Materials : Acrylic mirror, MDF, Ipad (60sec)
450(mm)
V-box is a multi-functional artwork that that is usually used as a table and changed into a multimedia sculpture work at the moment when a viewer watches video inside the box. The goal of this project is to experiment how the narratives could be changed depending on which container a work is included in. V-box is produced in the form of a table in order to go well with the black mood of PRO/RATA Art Viewing Room and the existing black chairs.
V-Box Fake V-Box Chair
Video inside V-Box
450(mm)
450(mm) 30(mm)
Cover with peeping hole
Mirror structure Ipad video
700(mm)
V-box means a Voyeurism Box. It stimulates voyeuristic desires of viewers by peeping a media work installed inside of the box through a hole on the upper part of the box. Each box plays a video expressing women’s desire, trauma, and complex that are undervalued and considered as a taboo in society, and the viewers have eye contact with a woman in the box through the hole.
So please listen, and just hear me
WYE : What You Expect 2019 Professional Work [ Artist Group Dotavi ] Type : Augmented Reality Arts Concept : Inner desire Role : Art director, Idea Suggestion, Concept Development Size : 800 x 800 (mm) / 4 pieces Materials : Digital print, Ipad (25sec)
WYE is a work of augmented reality in which photo works are viewed through a smart device. This work expressed the suppression and inner side experienced everyday by Korean women, by using the augmented reality technology as a tool for amplifying the gap between outer side and inner side of women. By turning over the typical image of women expected by viewers, viewers not only experience a twist, but also watch the work through a smart device, which maximizes their voyeuristic desire.
AR View When it is viewed through a smart device, a black-andwhite photo is changed into a color video. The women perform actions opposite to the public image, and break the fixed image of women. Total four women talk about social suppression and their internal desire against it such as gaze toward no-bra, stresses from diet and hair removal, and small breast complex.
AR(Augmented Reality) Art using Artivive application
AR Activation These are still-cuts of AR activated video. She is a dancer who is suffering from the diet stress. She expressed the oppression and her inner appetite as a performance.
B ∞ B : Break ∞ Build 2019 Professional Work [ Artist Group Dotavi ] Client : ZER01NE Day Festival 2019 Type : Interactive Media Art Performance Concept : Borderless in Everything Role : Art Director, Stage design, Costume design, Concept Development Materials : LED safety baton, LCD, scaffolding, net, tire, ladder, chain, fan
B∞B Plan A
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Breaking the ice with hammer
The performer tracking video continues to play and the ice that appeared at the beginning melts and fades out.
Media
At the beginning, video shows ice that continues to pile up and collapses, overlapping the robotic movements of the person.
The video changes into vivid colors with sound visualization and performer tracking videos.
D
00:23:00
Wake up Robotic Inflation Pause Explosion Chaos Die
00:05:35
A B C D E F G
00:17:25
E
C B F
A G
Chapter 1 : Construction
Scenario
A
Chapter 2 : Inflation
D
Chapter 3 : Deconstruction
F
Stage 6000 mm
10000 mm
Performers on the first floor and the second floor interact with each other on the two-story scaffolding structures that remind of a construction site. Performers show refined and mechanical movements.
The two-story scaffolding is replaced by that of one-story, and the net inside is gradually inflated. Performers tie the chains together or spin the LED baton to increase tension.
Red lights illuminate the stage to show energy explosion. Papers are blown along with the beeping sound, and performers show extremely destructive movements, such as breaking down ladders and tires.
Chapter 2 Detail
Interaction
Mรถbius Mechanical Recycle Build
Collapse
Borderless
Construct
Laborer Construction Site
Chapter 2 is the main part of the performance, where energy begins to change from the orderly structure of Chapter 1. The image below shows the detail cut of the concept model for Chapter 2, and the left is the actual performance.
Monument for Demolished Space
37.56, 126.99
2019 Competition Exhibition [ Group project : 10 people] -Experimental Prize Location : Project Broom Gallery, Seoul Type : Art installation Concept : Understanding Coexistence via Gentrification Role : Art director, Concept Development, Installation Size : 5100 x 3450 x 2800 (mm) Materials : speaker, lumber, sand, stain paint
Three Axis of Data
Time
accumulated on street
Physical Location of individual buildings
Sound the neighborhood share
Located in Seoul’s former industrial heart of Euljiro, “District 3” is an area currently facing systematic demolition due to controlled gentrification, and 37.56 and 126.99 are the latitude and longitude of the site of Eulji-ro’s District 3. 37.56, 126.99 is a pavilion that visualizes information of each building of District 3 along with the shape of an alleyway before the demolition in the form of bar graphs using various lengths and colors of wood. The sand from construction site provides the audience an interactive experience by sand’s fluidity that easily change shapes through people’s movements. This symbolically presents the society as a constantly shifting organism that changes in accordance with various variables.
Information on District 3
Grid of 150X150
114 Stained Lumbers of 30X30
28 Lumbers of 30X70
Structure and Detail Information
2
A
Building Year
B
1
1945
C
1950 D 1955 E
1960 F
1995 2018
A B C D E F
Coordinates of Buildings
Business Types of Buildings Equipment
4
Industrial
3
Warehouse Food Electric
Interactive Experience by Sand’s Fluidity
10kg Sand from Construction Site, Steps Hidden Coordinates
Coordinates of Demolished Buildings
Cut Contact Paper (Remaining Two digits of Altitude and Latitude)
Seoul
Circulation
Elements of Unstable State
Euljiro District 3
Road
Intersection
Inversion of Positive and Negative by Grid System
Grid
A Collective Body 2019 Academic Work [ Individual Project ] Concept : Female body Size : Table 894 x 894 x 856 (mm) Chair 680 x 650 x 450 (mm) Painting 1985 x 1370 (mm) Materials : Wood, Varnish Korean pigment on Hanji
A Collective Body is a project to convert my painting’s curved silhouette of the female body into furniture. It is prefabricated furniture that the wooden plates intersect together without using glue. It was arranged considering the relationship between painting and furniture so that the audience could sit and see the painting.
856mm
450mm
894mm
680mm
A Collective Body
Color-me Table 2019 Academic Work [ Individual Project ] Type : Art Furniture Concept : Female Body Size : 550 x 550 x 470 (mm) Materials : Korean pigment on wood, varnish
500mm 248mm
390mm
470mm
mm
550
A Collective Body
Fragmented Stories
2019 Academic Work [ Graduation Project ] Type : Korean Painting Concept : Fold and spread Size : 750 x 1430 (mm) Materials : Korean pigment, marker on Hanji
A Collective Body
Hidden Bodies
2019 Academic Work [ Graduation Project ] Type : Korean Painting Concept : Sexuality Materials : Korean pigment on Hanji
Theirs coming through me, 2019, Korean pigment on Hanji, 930 x 930 (mm)
Garden of Delight, 2019, Korean pigment on Hanji, 930 x 930 (mm)
Wandering Womb, 2019, Korean pigment on Hanji, 1000x1000 (mm)
A Collective Body 2019
Ewha Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
A Collective Body
Tunnel of Happiness and Fear 2016 Academic Work [ Graduation Project ] Type : Korean Painting Concept : Hallucination Size : 1300 x 1620 (mm) Materials : Korean pigment on Hanji
A Collective Body
sQuare sQuare 2017 Personal Work Type : Scarf Concept : Camouflage Pattern Size : 600 x 600 (mm) Materials : Print on fabric
Original Painting
Color Ways
Model Photo sQquare sQuare is one of the Camouflage Pattern series that fragmented my painting that depicts a sexualized woman’s body, which society regards as a taboo, and reconstructed it into a unit of a pattern. Ultimately, the image of the woman is obfuscated and camouflaged within the scarf. The patterns are printed on silk and can be used as a partition or curtain when printed large.
Woman Sense Magazine Korea
A Collective Body
Moon Garden
1. Original Painting
2. Fragment and Reconstruct
3. Product
2017 Personal Work Type : Scarf Concept : Camouflage Pattern Size : 1000 x 1000 (mm) Materials : Print on fabric
A Collective Body
Hotel MooA 2019 Personal Work Type : Interior Tile Concept : Ethnic, Oriental Size : 150x 150 (mm) Materials : Print on ceramic tile
Color Ways
Hotel MooA is a project where I created adaptable interior tiles inspired by my artwork focusing on the unit plan for a hotel room. Patterns are printed in a variety of colors on ceramic tiles and each hotel room is filled with ceramic tiles in different main colors. The main goal is to create an ethnic and decorative mood in space that allow people to deviate from their daily routine.
Unity Memorial for COVID-19 Healthcare Workers 2020 Academic Work [Collaborate with Sanah Rao] Type : Memorial, Pavilion, Public Art Concept : Tree of Rebirth Size : 15138 x 14845 x 3252(mm) Materials : wood, steel, fabric, thread, mask Unity Memorial is designed to commemorate COVID-19 healthcare workers and give updated information to the public as a live memorial. At the beginning of COVID, many countries and nations were blaming each other. However, we should unify globally and cooperate together in order to overcome unprecedented pandemic. The circular form of the memorial shows the value of global unity and the shape of COVID. This memorial is designed to experiment with the creation of an organic and continuous space in a narrative environment.
Site Analysis
Concept Sktech
Circular form inspired by COVID-19 and Global Unity
COVID-19 Test Station 14 Congdon St, Providence, RI 02906, USA
Baptist Church Prospect Park Roads / Parking Residential Buildings 0
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Unity Memorial is an live memorial dedicated to COVID-19 healthcare workers. This memorial will be displayed at a park located in14 Congdon Street, Providence, RI, USA. This area was temporaily used for COVID test station for RISD students and now it is an empty space.
Material Test
3D Modeling
Information is sewed with thread on translucent and water-proof fabric panels
Iteration for tree of rebirth
Structure and Curatorial
A poem dedicated to everyone effected by the virus and an encouraging message of unity
How they contracted Corona Virus? What did they go through?
Tree of rebirth is located in the center of the pavilion so that it shows the hope by poetic approach. Visitors can take hanging masks for free from the tree.
How did they overcome the virus?
Social Distancing
Projection of Live Updates on Corona Virus
Social Distancing Symptoms of Corona Virus
Outer circle is divided into two different types of panels: an eduational panel and a personal story panel. The educational panel will give an objective information about precaution, updated rate and news about COVID. The personal story panel will draw empathy to visitors with the narrative of the person who went through COVID.
Precautions of Corona Virus
10ft
Front
Back
7ft
6.5ft
Design Icons, 1900 – 2020 A Timeline of Furniture Masterpieces 2020 Academic Work Type : Exhibition Design Concept: Yellow Dot Location: Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI, USA
I designed an exhibition for the Sol Koffler Gallery that will depict the evolution of furniture design in the XXth century. By visualizing “icon” as a yellow dot, I could generate a unified design form and design planning process in chronicle order.
Plan Overview
78’8”
14’ 10’
Furniture Material
37’8”
Media Screen Manufacture Process
14’ 10’
Main Wall
Typography 25’
Main Title
Anisette bold ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP QRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890
Sub Title
Anisette light ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP QRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890
Dates
Helvetica Neue LT Std 37 Thin Condensed ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890
Names
Helvetica Neue LT Std 65 Medium ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890
Contents
Helvetica Neue LT Std 45 Light ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890
14’
Title Panel 25’10”
Color Palette
14’
#FFEC00 Intro Panel
#FFC5D8
#000000
Panels
14’ 10’
Physical Model
15 Rules for Rebuilding the World: Korean Architecture Christopher Alexander’s Element of Style
2020 Academic Work Type : Exhibition Design Concept: Korean Architecture Location: RISD Museum, Providence, RI, USA
Architect Christopher Alexander released in 2004—The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of building and the Nature of the Universe. The four volume set outlines the properties that Alexander believes underlie beauty in art, nature, and architecture. This exhibit will be the abridged 3D version of his manifesto. The audience will learn the 15 rules by having spatial experiences in Korean architectural form and elements.
Plan Overview
Circulation & Material 35’
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IAL WA
MATERIAL WALL
MATER
10 9
11 8
1. Levels of Scale
12 7
14
2. Strong Centers 3. Boundaries
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4. Alternating Repetition 5. Positive Space
5 92’
15 13
SEATS
103’
P
6. Good Shape 7. Local Symmetries
4
Roof Tile
Wood
8. Deep Interlock and Ambiguity 9. Contrast
TITLE WALL
1
10. Gradients 3
11. Roughness 12. Echoes
2
13. The Void
33’11”
Korean Paper
14. Simplicity and Inner Calm 15. Not-Separateness
Typography Wood & Foundation stone
Title
Gotham Bold ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890
Contents
Design Draft
Gotham Rounded Book ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890
Color Palette
#f1d599
#BFC9B3
#46509e
#bd221e
#71c2ad
The graphic of panels and main concept were designed under a consistent theme of Korean window grid, called Changhoji.
Panel graphics for 15 rules 11’
23’1”
33’11”
14’1’’
17’
6’101/2”
17’
6’101/2”
8’9”
11’
6’3”
6’101/2”
8’9”
6’3”
6’3”
6’3”
23’1”
6’101/2”
8’9”
6’3”
Panel: Title Wall
29’6”
17’
LED Light Variation
The Illusion 2013 Personal Work Type : Sculpture Concept : Gap between mass media and reality Size : 400 x 450 x 500 (mm) Materials : Computer monitor, LED light, spray
This project attempts to explore and develop a range of illusory detailing techniques to create a physically and perceptually engaging experience of space by using LED lights and recycling abandoned computer monitor. I focused on displaying the disparity between the typical image of New York seen in the mass media and New York I experienced.
Invisible Boundaries for indoor
2019 Academic Work [ Group Project : 3 people ] Type : Installation, Sculpture Concept : Personal Space Role : Art director, Concept Design, Installation Size : 2000 x 2000 x 2750 (mm) Materials : PVC film
250mm
This is a space that accommodates a single person. Humans are paradoxical beings who want to be connected, but also separated at the same time. I created a neutral zone by visualizing the invisible boundaries of personal space and displayed it inside a gallery. The piece is made of light translucent PVC film to make the view from both inside and outside blurry and illusory.
Invisible Boundaries for outdoor
2019 Personal Work Type : Pavilion, Public Art Concept : Spiral Cell Size : 2500 x 2250 x 2250 (mm) Materials : Acrylic cube
This is an expanded version of Invisible Boundaries to be displayed at a park. This pavilion is designed to experiment with the creation of an organic and continuous space in a module. In order to produce spaces that are both connected with one another but also veiled from one another, I made the piece out of translucent acrylic bricks that are solid and weatherproof, allowing people to see distorted and blurry images. A private zone in a public space is created.
Mooa Seongah Kang
skang05@risd.edu instagram.com/mooamood
INTERIOR/EXHIBITION DESIGNER for NARRATIVE ENVIRONMENTS
WORK EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
J-plus Architect office Co., Ltd. | 07. 2019 - 06. 2020
Rhode Island School of Design | 2020 - 2022
Assistant Interior Designer - Seoul, Korea
Master of Design (MDes) in Interior Architecture: Exhibition
Collaborative design research project with Jung-gu administrative office
and Narrative Environments
Participated in Euljiro projects: land-investigation, building disposition, design concept, interior design
RISD Fellowship, 2020 Ewha Womans University | 2016 - 2020
Dotavi Group | 02. 2019 - 12. 2020
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Korean Painting
Visual Art Director / Co-representative - Seoul, Korea
GPA: 4.1/4.3
Led interdisciplinary art project with choreographer, curator, media artist Commissioned to give an interactive media art performance for ZER01NE
Ewha Womans University | 2011 - 2016
Day Festival sponsored by Hyundai Motors Created AR(Augmented Reality) performance B ∞ L: Silent Leap supported by SFAC(Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture)
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Television & Film
Jung-Hwa High School | 08. 2018 - 07. 2019 Art Instructor - Seoul, Korea Built around a series of assignments and critiques in which students are encouraged to think deductively and intuitively
Ewha Womans University | 03. 2017 - 12. 2018 Research Assistant of Dean of the Dept. of Painting - Seoul, Korea Assisted professor Kiyoung Lee with organizing exhibition(Small is beautiful, Leehwaik gallery) for donation Teaching assistant for Korean painting studio
SBS(Seoul Broadcasting System) | 07. 2015 - 08. 2015
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Korean Painting GPA: 3.72/4.3
EXHIBITIONS Disappear | Group Exhibition | 07. 2020 Punto Blu, Seoul, Korea A Collective Body | Solo Exhibition | 06. 2019 Ewha Art Center, Seoul, Korea Friendship Mentor Mentee | Group Exhibition | 03. 2019 Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea UNTITLED | Group Exhibition | 02. 2018
Stage Design Intern - Seoul, Korea
Pao Galleries Hong Kong Arts Center, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Designed a set for the program Baek Jong Won, The Three Great Kings
MooA MooD | Solo Exhibition | 01. 2017 Teum Gallery, Seoul, Korea
SKILLS
Affordable Art Fair | Group Exhibition | 09. 2016 DDP(Dongdaemun Design Plaza), Seoul, Korea
Software
Adobe CC [Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Aftereffect, Premiere], Microsoft Office Suite [PowerPoint, Word, Excel], Rhinoceros 6, Auto CAD, V-ray, Lumion, Sketchup
URECA | Group Exhibition | 04. 2013
Analog
Oriental Painting, Hand Drafting, Model making, Exhibition Curation+Setup
HONORS
Language
English [IELTS 7.0], Korean [Native], Chinese [Conversational]
IDEC Foundation Graduate Scholar award | 2021
Interests
Travel, Viola, Tennis, Fine art, Volunteer
Danwon Art Festival | Prize | 2021
SAC Art Gallery, New York, USA
Thank you