Seonyoo Park works in the field of direction, composition, and art education based on classic composition and music technology. The artist creates works in a range of forms including music for established instruments and computers, experiment videos, performing art, and interactive installations and has experimented with employing music techniques for senses considered to be out of the scope of music such as sense of sight and touch to find convergence points across genres. The artist presented works at <Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2019>, <Internationales Digitalkunst Festival 2019>, <UNSTUMM>(2018), <VR/AR Convergence Contents>(2016) and has released the <LOOK> series, on the theme “my unfamiliar body,” making variations since 2018.

<LOOK_Dimensional Eye>

“I have lived thinking that all I have is a body. My goodness. It looks like this body is not mine either.”

<LOOK_Dimensional Eye> is a convergence art performance combining music, video, dance and technology, which is about “(my) unfamiliar body out of my control,” which each of us may get to face one day. “Thinking being” one cannot control one’s “physical matter” body, but those are inseparable as long as life continues. The “self-awareness” of this particular relationship between the two leads to the delightful yet bizarre “imagination” for the coexistence with the unfamiliar body after going through a time of awakening and observation. In this work, Seonyoo Park suggests questioning the things that we have taken for granted to be ours, and our beliefs that we are familiar with them and know very well and provides an experience to take another look in a new way.   

In accordance with the theme “looking at body unfamiliarly,” the artist selected three genres: dance to express “body,” video to represent “looking at body” and music to articulate “listening to the body.” The intention was to find the point of new convergence, not by simply adding genres, but by weaving those three genres using the “total serialism” composition technique. The key to this project is the process that subdivides musical elements, forms a serial basis placing them on the same line, and arranges them in a fixed order as if composing a total serialism* music.   

*Total serialism is a composition technique invented after the Second World War, which puts musical elements such as pitches, rhythms, dynamics, and timbres, in serial order.