《The Cacophony of Unbalance》 explores new
communication potential and relationship forming in tandem with the technology
era, observing how new things are created in the midst of disparate elements.
Unquestionably evolving with the technology era, art has been contemporarily
modernizing the subject reading the era and the matter of awareness. The
current moment cries out for a new language of thought to describe strange
existence emerged with ever-developing technology.
In the current era where
technology works both as ‘poison’ and ‘medicine’, we should look into how new
way of communication and sentimental resonance go together towards human life
coexisting with technology. Transcending the boundaries of the modern art
concept and conventional genre, the exhibition showcases five groundbreaking
works of convergence art embodying the spirit of contemporary art’s pluralism.
Each piece stands as a unique entity, a vibrant manifestation of the artist’s
imagination interlaced with factors of ‘nature’ and ‘technology’ in
heterogeneous and transforming way.
These artworks form a tense ensemble,
unlocking their potential in unforeseen ways. Whether this confluence
translates into a technologically aesthetic value or a meaningless noise hinges
on the organic interplay between pieces. Imagining the potential that
unexpectedly bursts among heterogeneous elements in the arena, the exhibition
invites you to contemplate mode of the technical properties in the works.
Physics
describes a ‘metastable state’ as a precarious balance between stability and
instability. In this state, even a minor irregularity can trigger a transition
in either direction, creating potential energy. The transitional potential
underlies as it is neither fully stable nor perfectly balanced and energy
exchange arises between two asymmetric extremes. 《The Cacophony of Unbalance》 embodies a
similar kind of metastability.
Transcending dichotomous concepts such as
technology and nature, humans and technology, and nature and humans, the
artwork implies various relationships in our society, heterogeneous individual,
and boundaries generated from them. Therefore, the exhibition creates the
irreversible new correlation structure within the tense relation between
different works. The exhibition makes discontinuous take off and maintain
continuous self-preserving metastability in the tense correlation with full of
potential energy for change and generation.
《The Cacophony of Unbalance》 discovers a new
relationship between different artworks and explores expansion of
relationship’s network. The five works, showcased in the exhibition, deliver
the stories of generation and change created from nature, technology, and
humans in their individual structure and method. Gijeong Goo translates the
real landscapes into 3D-rendered digital images to disturb the existing
awareness, creating potential fragile moments where the audience become aware
of heterogeneity. Goeun Park restructures tree’s micro movement data into
graphics as a metaphor for the invisible material level of a higher realm.
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Sanghee explores a new aesthetic experience from the boundary between real and
virtual plants and its space. So Soo Bin highlights that plants are not physically
fixed, but metastablely changeable within the complex relationship between
nature, technology, and humanity in the sensory experience where the audience
move the real plants and artificial plants at will. Shin Seungjae delves into
the audience’s sensory expansion by representing stereophonic sound as a new
medium, ‘seed’ as the sound is created physical contact between the plants and
the audience. Generation occurred from one point in the exhibition gradually
and discontinuously impacts other points in all direction.
As a metastably
changeable being within the relationship instead of static, the artwork is
transformed into one ensemble with other works. This ensemble taps into the
inherent potential of the work, pushing boundaries of relationship to the
higher level. As the works have their own formation and unique history, they
resist stagnation, becoming a catalyst for ongoing change. Therefore, the arena
is open to potential change instead of stable balance. The dance between
different works reaches a precarious unbalance when their potential for change
remains untapped.
The momentary affect from dance of the unbalanced energy
crosses, stays, and coagulates, creating new difference and change. Internal
resonance between the works reminds us of cacophony which creates the gap and
space, realizing new potential and awakening sense of the relationship. The
whole process becomes a potent reflection of the multilayered and variable
society, reminding us of how humans live in complex relationships with
unexpected diversity.
Society is a place where everything is newly formed every
time in reciprocal relationship, unlike a collection of isolated individuals.
Everything starts from difference and ends at difference, and all similarity
and coidentity is temporary byproducts along this ever-shifting journey.
Technology
occurs and evolves according to the unique principle of technological nature
and works as a medium to arrange relationship between humans and nature.
Technological advancements have gone hand-in-hand with a continual shift in the
materials we harvest from nature. This process generated thermal energy, and
its speed has gradually accelerated. As the total energy in the universe
remains constant according to the energy conservation law, nature has
transformed itself in line with the technological development speed.
However,
its inability to catch up with the acceleration of the technological
development causes extreme uncertainty which damages people recently. Humans
seek to bridge the gap between technological progress and the pace of natural
change by developing environmentally friendly technologies. However, today, the
development of new technologies to solve natural environmental problems has
created other environmental problems and conflicts of environmental values that
has never existed in previous eras.
The meaning of the relationship between
technological object, humans, and nature continuously expands and progresses
with each era. Interaction between technology and nature, created and evolving
in distinct rhythm and speed, fosters new mode for human connection with the
world, and unlocks the potential possibility to connect them in a way of
different level, leading to the way of communication and sentimental resonance.
The exhibition is composed of artworks that have their own individuality and
unity with both technology and nature elements.
Each piece highlights the
boundary of gap between two different elements, technology and nature in its
own unique way. A boundary is a dividing line, a surface of encounter, even a
space of gap or crack. In a society shaped by hybridity and diverse
sociocultural structures, the artworks prompt us to explore the space that
exists between different relationships treating the boundary as gap and crack.
How
can we perceive the current era within a newly established form of life in the
event of achieving limitless technological advancement?
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Sukyung Ha
