Sook Sun An, the Korean noted signer, is singing [Sa-Rang Ga (Love Song)- a part of Choon-Hyang Ga]- unites music, culture, and theater. The mix of Sook Sun’s poem and Minha’s digital video will illustrate the Indian ink wash painting like mystery feeling as if she is reciting the ‘elegance’ of our time. A VJ video will show in real-time at Melbourne while the recital of the poem.

Pansori Singer /  Sook Sun An (Korea)
Drummer / Yongsu Cho (Korea)
Digital Interactive Video / Minha Yang (Korea)
** Pansori: a traditional Korean narrative song

Artists

Sook Sun An
A Korean classical musician, Sook Sun An not only spread Korean music in domestic stages, but also traveled around the world such as Asia, North America, and Europe to tell Korean sound. She is a Korean representative singer who received Medal of Art and Culture from French Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 1988 and Medal of Culture from Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea in 1999.

Minha Yang
Minha Yang questions about the false abstraction in digital media. Those ornate replicas of nature armed with an oriental sensibility are in fact, the shadow of the real; nonetheless the digitalized media impress the audience with its mysterious beauty. The artist not only talks the perverted truth but censure the distorted mindset within the satire in his recent works. He ridicules its followers indirectly while being fooled by the anthropomorphic remnants created by the technological civilization, but the host and subject of the work are dismissed. Perhaps the discourse cannot be laughable for everyone as black comedy, but his experiment is intended to generate a genuine communication with the audience and also with digital media. The artist studied industrial design at Seoul National University and graduated Seoul National University Graduate School. Currently as a professor, he is teaching design at the Graduate School of University of Seoul.