Sungah 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
B
C
D
E
F
G
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
Body of Collective 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
Body of Collective 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
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
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
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)
Body of Collective 2019
Ewha Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
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
MooA MooD 2017
Gallery Café Teum, Seoul, Korea
69=0 2018 Type : Korean Painting Size : 1000 x 1000 (mm) Materials : Korean pigment on Hanji
Original Drawing
8+4-4=0(gr) 2018 Type : Korean Painting Size : 1300 x 1300 (mm) Materials : Korean pigment on Hanji
Original Drawing
Color Ways
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
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
2017 Personal Work Type : Fashion Photography Concept : Femme Fatale
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.
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 Sungah Kang mooa.sungahkang@gmail.com instagram.com/mooamood +82 10 8227 9928
Education
Solo Exhibitions Body of Collective
06. 2019
MooA MooD
01. 2017
Ewha Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea Gallery Café Teum, Seoul, Korea
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
03. 2016 – 06. 2020
State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
01. 2013 – 05. 2013
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
03. 2011 – 02. 2016
MFA Korean Painting Exchange Student
BFA Korean Painting, BA Television & Film
Selected Group Exhibitions
Work Experience
Body Expansion
11. 2019
PASA Festival
J-plus Architect office Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea
09. 2019 -
10. 2019
Dotavi, Seoul, Korea
01. 2019 -
ZER01NE Day Festival
10. 2019
Cociety, Seoul, Korea
05 2019 - 07. 2019
Hidden Bodies
09. 2019
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
03. 2017 - 02. 2018
So please listen and just hear me
07. 2019
Seoul Broadcasting System, Seoul, Korea
06. 2015 - 08. 2015
Art Peace 72
04. 2019
Friendship Mentor Mentee
03. 2019
9 Eyes
09. 2018
Untitled 2018
02. 2018
Ewha Art Center, Seoul, Korea Suwon Art Center, Suwon, Korea Hyundai 1st Car Center, Seoul, Korea Punto Blu, Seoul, Korea PRO/RATA ART, Seoul, Korea
Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital, Seoul, Korea Hanwon Museum of Art Space U, Seoul, Korea Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Interior Designer
Seoul Illustration Fair
12. 2017
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
12. 2017
15th Segment
11. 2017
Affordable Art Fair
09. 2016
Danwon Art Festival 2014
09. 2014
COEX B Hall, Seoul, Korea Leehwaik Gallery, Seoul, Korea Sewoon Space 15th , Seoul, Korea Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, Korea Danwon Art Museum, Ansan, Korea
Visual Art Director, Co-Representative Exhibition Design Intern
Research Assistant of Dean of the Dept. of Korean Painting Stage Design Intern
International Experience China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
07. 2014
EGI (oversea research program), Germany, Denmark, Finland
07. 2012
Ewha Volunteer Club, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
07. 2011
Summer Exchange program
Graphic Designer, write paper about“Recycling empty space into cultural and artistic space” Art Teacher at Ewha Srang School
Honor Absolut Future Artist
12. 2017
Woman Sense Magazine Korea
02. 2017
Danwon Art Festival 2014
09. 2014
Selected as Future Young Artist, Korea Spring Scarf Section, 114p Win a Prize
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