Drawing Beyond Lines-Multidisciplinary Drawing Exhibition
Open Studio Project #2
Project Intent:
The term ‘line’ can refer to lines in traditional drawing but also signifies boundaries. In this project, I focus on the act of conventional drawing and the meaning of ‘bringing forth’ something. Additionally, I interpret ‘drawing’ as freedom, fleeting moments and impressions, purity, and the essence of things. My drawing materials are not just canvas and acrylic colors but also the surfaces of my studio space, where I draw with my body, text, and objects. By experimenting and expressing the inspiration that fills my heart through free drawing centered on dots, lines, and colors, I aim to expand the traditional concepts, media, and scope of drawing, the methods of presenting and viewing works, and my artistic capabilities.
Artist’s Note: I meticulously observe and feel daily life, writing down my thoughts. I record impressive findings as doodles or photos. This accumulation of daily life melts into my present inspiration. I am most drawn to nature, especially its colors, fractals, organic curves, and seasonal changes. I also enjoy spending time alone in my studio, which I have designed like a blank canvas, imagining things freely. My studio is both the process and the result of my work, and it becomes both a workspace and a piece of art. In this project, I have carefully observed the interior and exterior of the building, contemplating the intersections and methods of connecting with the outside world.
Invitation: I took a journey of years contemplating my artistic activities until I called them a genre, ‘Young-Sun Art,’ and ‘Young Sun Lee Creative Studio’ has become part of my current artwork. The visible results and the layers of what lies beneath continue to build my present. This year’s Open Studio Project <Drawing Beyond Lines> is the intersection of my space and time with external time and space or my world with others. I hope that those curious about my studio, which exists like an invisible dot in the city filled with personal taste, will stop by and enjoy a simple exchange with some refreshments.
The project was granted by Chungnam Arts and Tourism Foundation & Chungcheongnam-Do
Project Intent:
The term ‘line’ can refer to lines in traditional drawing but also signifies boundaries. In this project, I focus on the act of conventional drawing and the meaning of ‘bringing forth’ something. Additionally, I interpret ‘drawing’ as freedom, fleeting moments and impressions, purity, and the essence of things. My drawing materials are not just canvas and acrylic colors but also the surfaces of my studio space, where I draw with my body, text, and objects. By experimenting and expressing the inspiration that fills my heart through free drawing centered on dots, lines, and colors, I aim to expand the traditional concepts, media, and scope of drawing, the methods of presenting and viewing works, and my artistic capabilities.
Artist’s Note: I meticulously observe and feel daily life, writing down my thoughts. I record impressive findings as doodles or photos. This accumulation of daily life melts into my present inspiration. I am most drawn to nature, especially its colors, fractals, organic curves, and seasonal changes. I also enjoy spending time alone in my studio, which I have designed like a blank canvas, imagining things freely. My studio is both the process and the result of my work, and it becomes both a workspace and a piece of art. In this project, I have carefully observed the interior and exterior of the building, contemplating the intersections and methods of connecting with the outside world.
Invitation: I took a journey of years contemplating my artistic activities until I called them a genre, ‘Young-Sun Art,’ and ‘Young Sun Lee Creative Studio’ has become part of my current artwork. The visible results and the layers of what lies beneath continue to build my present. This year’s Open Studio Project <Drawing Beyond Lines> is the intersection of my space and time with external time and space or my world with others. I hope that those curious about my studio, which exists like an invisible dot in the city filled with personal taste, will stop by and enjoy a simple exchange with some refreshments.
The project was granted by Chungnam Arts and Tourism Foundation & Chungcheongnam-Do
SOLO DANCE PERFORMANCE:
Drawing for the Body, By the Body (Re-imagined for Stage)
Performed and choreographed by Young Sun Lee
730pm July 3 (Wed), 2024
Seogang Univ. Mary Hall Theater, Seoul, Korea
Selected for "Tanz Argument Choreographers" (Performing Arts Inter-Kult)
730pm July 3 (Wed), 2024
Seogang Univ. Mary Hall Theater, Seoul, Korea
Selected for "Tanz Argument Choreographers" (Performing Arts Inter-Kult)
About Choreography
: In the choreography titled ‘Drawing for the Body’, Young-Sun Lee presents a digitized collection of sketches and scribbles, reflecting her daily creative research. Meanwhile, ‘Drawing by the Body’ is a pure movement dance where Lee visually expresses herself by drawing in space with her body. Lee encapsulates her artistic philosophy by stating, ‘I draw, dance, think, and thus exist.'
: In the choreography titled ‘Drawing for the Body’, Young-Sun Lee presents a digitized collection of sketches and scribbles, reflecting her daily creative research. Meanwhile, ‘Drawing by the Body’ is a pure movement dance where Lee visually expresses herself by drawing in space with her body. Lee encapsulates her artistic philosophy by stating, ‘I draw, dance, think, and thus exist.'
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Stories Made of Flowers and Trees
Multidisciplinary Project Granted by Chungnam Culture & Tourism Foundation
Open Studio Project at Young Sun Lee Creative Studio
Book (writing/design/editing/illustration) + Drawings +Digital Works by Young Sun Lee
Open Studio Project at Young Sun Lee Creative Studio
Book (writing/design/editing/illustration) + Drawings +Digital Works by Young Sun Lee
Artist's Note:
For a long time, I have observed the colors of flowers, trees, and nature in daily life, wanting to capture them in my drawings. Natural subjects are easily accessible yet continually present new beauty, always drawing my attention. Finally, since last year, the images of nature stored in my mind have started to burst forth from my fingertips. As part of nature myself, I wanted to express nature in the most 'natural' way.
I longed for an empty space like a blank canvas, where I could see trees and flowers, to use as my studio. When I accidentally discovered my current studio, it felt as if the studio had been waiting for me, ready to share its stories. I felt delighted every time I heard that the space resembled me. I prepared for this year’s exhibition by observing quince trees, roses, geraniums, and petunias outside the window. Watering the flowers daily helped me understand them better and ponder on life similar to flowers and trees. Like them, I was simply living well as Young-Sun Lee.
There were imaginative stories I had wanted to publish for a long time. I wanted to include drawings but wasn’t sure how to go about it, so I postponed publication every year. This year, while drawing flowers and trees, I compiled five stories into a creative fairy tale book for everyone, titled Stories Made of Flowers and Trees. The images in the fairy tale were completed by chance through graphic work over acrylic paintings on canvas, becoming yet another work of art. I am very satisfied with the result, especially because it came out in my favorite colors, pink and mint.
I wanted to find the most fitting place for my work—somewhere comfortable, free, and resembling me. I thought of an open studio format, where my work could be freely displayed. As an art piece, not a product, what place could be better than the artist’s own studio to present the work in its most essential form? A place where the process, the creator, and the outcome of interdisciplinary work are genuinely respected, and where the identity of the artist, who is both a dance artist and a multidisciplinary creator, is fully visible without editing. This is where I wanted to showcase my new works for the first time.
The exhibition is not merely about displaying drawings but includes the artist and the studio itself as part of the artwork. Visitors can also hear about the artist’s publications and the stories behind the work. Therefore, the exhibition became Stories Made of Flowers and Trees. I hope this project will grow and expand as visitors share in the artist’s time and space.
For a long time, I have observed the colors of flowers, trees, and nature in daily life, wanting to capture them in my drawings. Natural subjects are easily accessible yet continually present new beauty, always drawing my attention. Finally, since last year, the images of nature stored in my mind have started to burst forth from my fingertips. As part of nature myself, I wanted to express nature in the most 'natural' way.
I longed for an empty space like a blank canvas, where I could see trees and flowers, to use as my studio. When I accidentally discovered my current studio, it felt as if the studio had been waiting for me, ready to share its stories. I felt delighted every time I heard that the space resembled me. I prepared for this year’s exhibition by observing quince trees, roses, geraniums, and petunias outside the window. Watering the flowers daily helped me understand them better and ponder on life similar to flowers and trees. Like them, I was simply living well as Young-Sun Lee.
There were imaginative stories I had wanted to publish for a long time. I wanted to include drawings but wasn’t sure how to go about it, so I postponed publication every year. This year, while drawing flowers and trees, I compiled five stories into a creative fairy tale book for everyone, titled Stories Made of Flowers and Trees. The images in the fairy tale were completed by chance through graphic work over acrylic paintings on canvas, becoming yet another work of art. I am very satisfied with the result, especially because it came out in my favorite colors, pink and mint.
I wanted to find the most fitting place for my work—somewhere comfortable, free, and resembling me. I thought of an open studio format, where my work could be freely displayed. As an art piece, not a product, what place could be better than the artist’s own studio to present the work in its most essential form? A place where the process, the creator, and the outcome of interdisciplinary work are genuinely respected, and where the identity of the artist, who is both a dance artist and a multidisciplinary creator, is fully visible without editing. This is where I wanted to showcase my new works for the first time.
The exhibition is not merely about displaying drawings but includes the artist and the studio itself as part of the artwork. Visitors can also hear about the artist’s publications and the stories behind the work. Therefore, the exhibition became Stories Made of Flowers and Trees. I hope this project will grow and expand as visitors share in the artist’s time and space.
New book Published!
<Stories Made of Flowers & Trees> 2023
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Drawings/Design/Digital Work/Stories by Young-Sun Lee
New Book Published!
<Wetland Drawing> -Three Stories Made of Wetland-
Published in Dec 2022 by Young-Sun Lee. Young-Sun Lee Creative Studio
Original Drawings/Stories/Design by Young-Sun Lee
Original Drawings/Stories/Design by Young-Sun Lee
About the Book <Wetland Drawing>
A being from the world of light feels a desperate urge and moves to this world. Wearing the skin of a doctor with a zipper and hiding his true identity, the boy wished to share the energy of light with the world. However, tired of everyday life, he started visiting the swamp with his camera every weekend. Only there could he be his true self, wandering through the wetland. The boy, while taking photos as if drawn to something hidden in the wetland, meets a shadow-like girl who wears darkness like a cloak. From there, various stories unfold across three different spaces and times.
Wetland Drawing is a book containing three different stories with the same title: The Story of the Boy and the Girl Who Became a Wetland, Decalcomania, and The Ice Princess. Almost every page includes drawings by the author, intertwined with the text, allowing readers to ponder while reading. Although the writing resembles a fantasy fairy tale or short story for adults, it is also suitable for children, providing diverse interests to all ages according to their experiences and depth of thought. It is a profound yet pure simple story.
A being from the world of light feels a desperate urge and moves to this world. Wearing the skin of a doctor with a zipper and hiding his true identity, the boy wished to share the energy of light with the world. However, tired of everyday life, he started visiting the swamp with his camera every weekend. Only there could he be his true self, wandering through the wetland. The boy, while taking photos as if drawn to something hidden in the wetland, meets a shadow-like girl who wears darkness like a cloak. From there, various stories unfold across three different spaces and times.
Wetland Drawing is a book containing three different stories with the same title: The Story of the Boy and the Girl Who Became a Wetland, Decalcomania, and The Ice Princess. Almost every page includes drawings by the author, intertwined with the text, allowing readers to ponder while reading. Although the writing resembles a fantasy fairy tale or short story for adults, it is also suitable for children, providing diverse interests to all ages according to their experiences and depth of thought. It is a profound yet pure simple story.
2022 Wetland Drawing l Drawing Wetland
Multidisciplinary Drawing Project
Granted by Chungnam Culture Foundation
Museum Workshop at Cheonan Arts Center
2022 Museum Summer School
Special Dance Artist Workshop-"Abstract Conversation"
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SOLO DANCE PERFORMANCE: YOUNG SUN LEE I & II
Performed and choreographed by Young Sun Lee
730pm Mar 12 (Sat), 2022
Sungsoo Arts Hall, Seoul, Korea
Selected for "Tanz Argument Choreographers"
730pm Mar 12 (Sat), 2022
Sungsoo Arts Hall, Seoul, Korea
Selected for "Tanz Argument Choreographers"
Young Sun Lee II-Infinite Rush of Lines
: The piece explores the theme of the abstraction of 'lines' created by the body as it moves organically. This dance encompasses movements of small, long, twisted, and curved lines. Lee believes that everything capable of movement possesses life. She breathes and sustains her life through dancing and moving.
: The piece explores the theme of the abstraction of 'lines' created by the body as it moves organically. This dance encompasses movements of small, long, twisted, and curved lines. Lee believes that everything capable of movement possesses life. She breathes and sustains her life through dancing and moving.
2021 Drawing Project (Re-exhibition)
Supported by The Good Space Project (Art Space Isaek, Seoul, Korea)
Young Sun Lee Creative Studio in New Location since Aug. 2021
Current Creative Studio to Facilitate a Multidisciplinary Creative Process
온라인미디어 예술활동 지원 Art Change Up
My Dance Diary 2020
Online Media Arts Project (Dance Film) granted by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Arts Council Korea, Chungnam Arts & Culture Foundation
Visit the link: https://dancediaryys.weebly.com/
The Nutcracker (2019.12)
Performed for the Nutcracker by the Seoul Ballet Theater
Multidisciplinary Performance/Exhibition Project
Visit the link: www.drawingyslee.weebly.com
Visit the link: www.drawingyslee.weebly.com
Artist’s Note for Drawing for the body, by the body
Drawing, to me, is both a part of the creative process and a complete work of art in itself. They are the records of my choreographic imagination, codified creative ideas, my language, and the breath of my dance captured in stillness. It is like a condensed dance that can only be drawn when one can move their body and imagine dance.
I have transformed drawings accumulated over years of my creative process into multimedia works including text, objects, movement, embodied images, and prints. My focus in this work is to experiment with the potential of drawings in multiple media and ultimately expand the boundaries of choreography.
This project aims to merge two different forms of presentation—exhibition and performance—that are usually separate in time and space. The project is divided into two parts: "Drawings for the Body" and "Drawings by the Body." "Drawings for the Body" includes video, prints, three-dimensional drawings, and artbooks, while "Drawings by the Body" consists of pure movement drawings(four choreographic pieces) in space with the dancing body.
Artists who work within one specific genre may take a multidisciplinary approach in their creative process, and while the words and presentation format may not be brand new, what distinguishes one from another is the essence that each artist brings to their work. This essence shines through all the embellishments and advanced technology. The essence of my work is the original dance vocabulary I have created and developed, which is innate to my body, much like homemade. It is a language that communicates even without verbal titles or explanations.
Through this project, I hope viewers can discover a new kind of language that transcends genres, the distinction between process and result, and verbal storytelling structures. I believe this language is what makes us human, a part of our ability that deteriorates as the world becomes more civilized and evolved. Moreover, I am confident that this Young Sun Art project will provide an excellent opportunity to observe how one idea can organically transmit, transform, and integrate across different genres.
Drawing, to me, is both a part of the creative process and a complete work of art in itself. They are the records of my choreographic imagination, codified creative ideas, my language, and the breath of my dance captured in stillness. It is like a condensed dance that can only be drawn when one can move their body and imagine dance.
I have transformed drawings accumulated over years of my creative process into multimedia works including text, objects, movement, embodied images, and prints. My focus in this work is to experiment with the potential of drawings in multiple media and ultimately expand the boundaries of choreography.
This project aims to merge two different forms of presentation—exhibition and performance—that are usually separate in time and space. The project is divided into two parts: "Drawings for the Body" and "Drawings by the Body." "Drawings for the Body" includes video, prints, three-dimensional drawings, and artbooks, while "Drawings by the Body" consists of pure movement drawings(four choreographic pieces) in space with the dancing body.
Artists who work within one specific genre may take a multidisciplinary approach in their creative process, and while the words and presentation format may not be brand new, what distinguishes one from another is the essence that each artist brings to their work. This essence shines through all the embellishments and advanced technology. The essence of my work is the original dance vocabulary I have created and developed, which is innate to my body, much like homemade. It is a language that communicates even without verbal titles or explanations.
Through this project, I hope viewers can discover a new kind of language that transcends genres, the distinction between process and result, and verbal storytelling structures. I believe this language is what makes us human, a part of our ability that deteriorates as the world becomes more civilized and evolved. Moreover, I am confident that this Young Sun Art project will provide an excellent opportunity to observe how one idea can organically transmit, transform, and integrate across different genres.
Black Drawing
Contemporary Solo Dance Performance
Invited Performance to the Cheonan Dance Festival
Performance/Choreography: Young-Sun Lee
Cheonan Arts Center
Nov 24, 2017
hosted by Cheonan Dance Association
Invited Performance to the Cheonan Dance Festival
Performance/Choreography: Young-Sun Lee
Cheonan Arts Center
Nov 24, 2017
hosted by Cheonan Dance Association
Program Notes:
Black Drawing
Published Poem by Young-Sun Lee
And then,
I was locked inside this big whale.
I came in here by myself.
Taking a break for a while without letting anyone know,
I was thinking of going out again when the time came.
I thought I could.
But while I was here,
I didn’t realize this gigantic dark animal started its journey.
Into the deeper darkness of the sea than the dark whale itself,
In the world full of darkness everywhere,
The whale whose eyes have already degenerated and can see nothing
Is taking me on an aimless journey.
There is no light here.
The only thing that can be seen is
The memory of the residue of older memories
Which sometimes float up like the contour of dim light.
I often imagine turning on a light bulb.
However, that is nothing like light.
And that light cannot shine anything.
I turn off the light in my imagination.
In the place where darkness only exists,
Dream and reality,
Inside and outside,
Day and night,
And the flow of time have been entangled all together,
Creating a monstrous shape that cannot tell apart.
Is this death or life?
The journey of the whale doesn’t push time forward.
Nothing moves forward though the whale travels.
It can be forward or backward.
I cut a piece of vast darkness.
And I draw the memory of the residue of a memory of a glimmer of light.
What might be this memory about?
Soon the incorporeal memory begins to flesh up.
It has become a feeble and tiny substantial entity.
This is a big fish that I caught in my old dream.
This is a tree with eyes that are looking at me.
This is a snake that once seduced Adam.
This is a snail that I like.
These are crazy hogs that are breaking out of the pigpen.
These are sad pieces of broken hearts.
After having to send their beloved children to the cold sea.
And this is an imaginary ostrich that looked taller than the sky.
If I kept cutting darkness into pieces,
If this whale was melt away into darkness,
So, if the sea ran out the darkness,
Could I be out of this whale?
Black Drawing
Published Poem by Young-Sun Lee
And then,
I was locked inside this big whale.
I came in here by myself.
Taking a break for a while without letting anyone know,
I was thinking of going out again when the time came.
I thought I could.
But while I was here,
I didn’t realize this gigantic dark animal started its journey.
Into the deeper darkness of the sea than the dark whale itself,
In the world full of darkness everywhere,
The whale whose eyes have already degenerated and can see nothing
Is taking me on an aimless journey.
There is no light here.
The only thing that can be seen is
The memory of the residue of older memories
Which sometimes float up like the contour of dim light.
I often imagine turning on a light bulb.
However, that is nothing like light.
And that light cannot shine anything.
I turn off the light in my imagination.
In the place where darkness only exists,
Dream and reality,
Inside and outside,
Day and night,
And the flow of time have been entangled all together,
Creating a monstrous shape that cannot tell apart.
Is this death or life?
The journey of the whale doesn’t push time forward.
Nothing moves forward though the whale travels.
It can be forward or backward.
I cut a piece of vast darkness.
And I draw the memory of the residue of a memory of a glimmer of light.
What might be this memory about?
Soon the incorporeal memory begins to flesh up.
It has become a feeble and tiny substantial entity.
This is a big fish that I caught in my old dream.
This is a tree with eyes that are looking at me.
This is a snake that once seduced Adam.
This is a snail that I like.
These are crazy hogs that are breaking out of the pigpen.
These are sad pieces of broken hearts.
After having to send their beloved children to the cold sea.
And this is an imaginary ostrich that looked taller than the sky.
If I kept cutting darkness into pieces,
If this whale was melt away into darkness,
So, if the sea ran out the darkness,
Could I be out of this whale?
New Book Published by Young Sun Lee
<바보book> =<Babo Book>
*Babo means a fool in Korean.
All written & designed by Young Sun Lee
Genre: Young Sun Art (Integrated art of text/image/typography/dance)
Date of Publication: Sept 28, 2017
Price: KRW20000
This book cannot be explained until it is opened. Each page holds a vast, pure poetic space that exists at the intersection of language, images, movement, poetry, and prose. As someone might ask whether the author is a fool, the book is about fools, or the reader is a fool, or what a fool is, the reader must turn the pages to find out. Finally, the author says, "A reader who relates to this book might be a highly talented genius."
<바보book> =<Babo Book>
*Babo means a fool in Korean.
All written & designed by Young Sun Lee
Genre: Young Sun Art (Integrated art of text/image/typography/dance)
Date of Publication: Sept 28, 2017
Price: KRW20000
This book cannot be explained until it is opened. Each page holds a vast, pure poetic space that exists at the intersection of language, images, movement, poetry, and prose. As someone might ask whether the author is a fool, the book is about fools, or the reader is a fool, or what a fool is, the reader must turn the pages to find out. Finally, the author says, "A reader who relates to this book might be a highly talented genius."
New Book Published
<Black Drawing>
All written & designed by Young Sun Lee
Genre: Art Book with Creative Drawings and Writings in English & Korean
Date of Publication: Oct 1, 2016
Price: KRW15000
Drawing has been one of my important creative tools and habits. They are the records of my choreographic imagination and fractured pieces of time and space that I went through. I collected some of my drawings and edited them following my mind's logic. Guided by intuition, I let the book spontaneously tell a story.
In your own solitude with a relaxed time, the book will start to tell you a story. The book may have you dance, create something, hear some sounds, or write something. If the book delivers nothing to your mind, I recommend that you stand in front of a big tree and try to talk with it. By the time that you learn how to talk with the tree, you will be able to understand a lot of things in the world.
<Black Drawing>
All written & designed by Young Sun Lee
Genre: Art Book with Creative Drawings and Writings in English & Korean
Date of Publication: Oct 1, 2016
Price: KRW15000
Drawing has been one of my important creative tools and habits. They are the records of my choreographic imagination and fractured pieces of time and space that I went through. I collected some of my drawings and edited them following my mind's logic. Guided by intuition, I let the book spontaneously tell a story.
In your own solitude with a relaxed time, the book will start to tell you a story. The book may have you dance, create something, hear some sounds, or write something. If the book delivers nothing to your mind, I recommend that you stand in front of a big tree and try to talk with it. By the time that you learn how to talk with the tree, you will be able to understand a lot of things in the world.
Global Culture Exchange Through Dance
Date: April 23, 2016
Invited Guest Artist: Rashmi Nair
Born & educated in India and currently residing in New York, Rashmi Nair is traveling and performing in the world as a solo Kathak dancer. She is giving a workshop/showcase performance at my studio. Pls come and join this little but tremendously valuable event!
Invited Guest Artist: Rashmi Nair
Born & educated in India and currently residing in New York, Rashmi Nair is traveling and performing in the world as a solo Kathak dancer. She is giving a workshop/showcase performance at my studio. Pls come and join this little but tremendously valuable event!
My Third Studio in Cheonan with business registration in 2015
Young-Sun Lee Creative Studio communicates the genuine essence and intrinsic value of art. Through a diverse spectrum of creative activities, publishing, education, research, and versatile space management, the studio serves as a dynamic platform for artistic exploration. With a mission to illuminate the diverse tapestry of life, the studio endeavors to transcend the boundaries between art and industry while embracing the joy of productive play. It is aiming at bringing forth novel creations that challenge the status quo and resist settling into a singular status of existence.
Young-Sun Lee Creative Studio communicates the genuine essence and intrinsic value of art. Through a diverse spectrum of creative activities, publishing, education, research, and versatile space management, the studio serves as a dynamic platform for artistic exploration. With a mission to illuminate the diverse tapestry of life, the studio endeavors to transcend the boundaries between art and industry while embracing the joy of productive play. It is aiming at bringing forth novel creations that challenge the status quo and resist settling into a singular status of existence.
My first studio
Photowork Exhibition <soul/soul>
Igong Gallery, Daejeon, Korea
Group Exhibition of <DangWee>
April 16-23, 2014
Photoworks by Young Sun Lee
Igong Gallery, Daejeon, Korea
Group Exhibition of <DangWee>
April 16-23, 2014
Photoworks by Young Sun Lee
Int'l Collaborative Project with a UK Partner, LaNua:
Objects, Either Alive or Dead
Granted to do the int'l collaborative project with a UK partner, Merav Israel at LaNua!!~
Supported by the Korea Arts Management Services, Creative Scotland, Eden Court
Oct 7 -22, 2013 Research in Korea
Nov 1-17, 2013 Research in Scotland
Photo by Woo-Hee Kim, Jasmin Falconer
Supported by the Korea Arts Management Services, Creative Scotland, Eden Court
Oct 7 -22, 2013 Research in Korea
Nov 1-17, 2013 Research in Scotland
Photo by Woo-Hee Kim, Jasmin Falconer
Performance: Re-imagining <Homemade & Organic>
Place: Ansan Arts Center, Ansan, Kyonggi-Do
Date: Sept 13, 14 (Fri & Sat), 2013, 7:30pm
1 Stop from Gojan St. (#4 Blue Line from Seoul)
Produced by 1 Pound Chocolate Arts Collective
Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performer: Young Sun Lee
Supported by Ansan Arts Foundation (Venue/Marketing)
"Open Arts Space Project"
http://www.ansanart.com/design/performance0101_view.asp?left=1&no=1290
Date: Sept 13, 14 (Fri & Sat), 2013, 7:30pm
1 Stop from Gojan St. (#4 Blue Line from Seoul)
Produced by 1 Pound Chocolate Arts Collective
Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performer: Young Sun Lee
Supported by Ansan Arts Foundation (Venue/Marketing)
"Open Arts Space Project"
http://www.ansanart.com/design/performance0101_view.asp?left=1&no=1290
Homemade & Organic:
Dance that Looks like No One but Me
Re-imagined for 2013 Open Space Project
Choreographic Intention
“Homemade & Organic are the two words that best represent my work process with movement and its quality. I prepared the works with numerous movement vocabularies out of my own body as a main object, which still looks strange and new though I live with it every day.” The performance consists of four movement solos and a video work; Snail III-Sexy Snail, Young-Sun Lee, Fish on a Tree in a Little Pond, Solitary Room Talks to Me, and Hairy Square Snail. The works are presented with short intervals between pieces, but they flow as if audiences were watching one full-length of work. Evelyn Ficarra and Kyja K-Nelson participated in the performance partially as a music and a video collaborator. The works feature pure abstract movement vocabularies with self-contained meanings, their unexpected compositional mix in space, and imaginative images derived out of this process as a whole.”
Collaboration with Evelyn Ficarra
Evelyn Ficarra has been collecting sounds since her early twenties, using them in her composition practice on an equal level with musical instrument and vocal sound sources, in a variety of musical and collaborative contexts. Since 2009 she has developed simple interfaces using the software program Max MSP with which she can improvise with these sounds, deploying them and manipulating them in real time performance situations. The pieces in this program are a mixture of
through-composed concert pieces from Ficarra's earlier repertoire (such as Deuce and vagues fenêtres); simple soundscapes with minimal processing (Rain for Young Sun and Waves for Young Sun); and pieces generated through
improvisation with the sounds (Clocks for Young Sun and Young Sun Mix, and also the sound track for the short film). All the pieces entitled 'sound scores' in this program were gathered together for Young Sun, specifically for this collaboration, in consultation with her. Young Sun Mix was improvised in the studio at the Djerassi resident artist program where they met.
Program
Opening: Waiting for Sexy Snail (appx. 20min.)
Sound Score by Evelyn Ficarra, Rain for Young Sun
Snail III-Sexy Snail (appx. 7min.)
Music by Evelyn Ficarra, excerpts from Vagues Fenêtres, for string trio and electronics, 2010
: It is the third piece in the Snail Series followed by Fast Snail and Timid Snail, inspired by a yellow banana slug and its sexual and flexible movement. Tyra Banks once said in a TV show that sexiness is not a certain pose but a way to present oneself. I integrated these conceptual and physical ideas of sexiness into a solo. Also, I tried to contrast and abstract the violent environment and invisible threat placed against this fragile object or feminine quality using musical elements and
limited space usage.
The electronic part from the original music, vagues / fenêtres (which translates as ‘waves / windows’) was used for this piece: “The electronic part is made entirely from string sounds, recorded during studio sessions with Victor Huguenin (violin), Nils Bultman (viola) and Ambre Tamagna (cello). (Evelyn Ficarra)”
Interval: Sexy Snail Goes to the Sea (appx. 5min.)
Sound Score by Evelyn Ficarra, Waves for Young Sun
:“On a rainy day in spring 2012, I saw rows of tiny snails that were crawling on the road by the San Antonio beach in California. I almost tramped on them. And we shared silent greetings and went our own ways.”
Young Sun Lee (appx. 5min.)
Music by Evelyn Ficarra, a 4:37 excerpt from Deuce (1993) for baroque flute, harpsichord and tape
: Young-Sun Lee is a self expressed in dance and Lee’s journey into the essence of dance. Lee learned that her physical characteristics could not be reconciled with the existing movement techniques such as ballet or modern techniques named as Merce or Martha. She took this difference as her strength and intended to create her own vocabulary that does not look like anyone’s style but her own. She dares to name her dance as Young-Sun Lee.
The piece was chosen to represent the dance dept. of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for the 2010 American College Dance Festival (national) and was finally selected as a finalist for the 2010 Best Student Performer/Choreographer Award out of over 530 pieces submitted (pieces are choreographed by students, professional guest choreographers, and faculties and audited in a public setting anonymously), which is biannually sponsored by the Kennedy Center and Dance Magazine. The piece was invited to perform at a gala concert in the Kennedy Center and was produced numerously in different venues such as the Krannert Center for Performing Arts, the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center (the Charlotte Dance Festival), the Ford Amphitheater (commissioned by the Dream Dance Foundation in LA), and others.
Deuce takes its starting point from two related gestures: that of a ball being batted back and forth, and the sound of it bouncing to a stop on a hard surface. The former provides the rhythmic impetus for much of the piece, while the latter
generates the structure, in this way: initially, longer sections, each with a clearly defined sound world, alternate in gradually diminishing durations, until the disparate sounds intermingle in quick-fire juxtaposition, moving at last into a sustained finish (the ball bounces more and more quickly, then rolls away.
The sounds on the tape were largely derived from recordings of the instruments of Jane Chapman and Eleanor Dawson (harpsichord and baroque flute respectively.) These recordings were made in summer in non-sound proofed conditions and were thus liberally scattered with birdsong. Evelyn decided to make a virtue of this by using these ’extraneous’ sounds to develop the pitch material of the piece. She was greatly aided in this by a very insistent blackbird who sang outside her
window as she worked; he also found his way onto the tape.
Deuce was commissioned by Eleanor Dawson in 1992 with funds from the Arts Council of Great Britain and received its premiere performance in Belfast in March, 1993.
Video-soul/soul(appx. 5 Min.)
Video by Young Sun Lee
Animation by Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson
Sound Score by Evelyn Ficarra
:The Hairy Square Snail lives in the screen shell where there is no space for others to come in. As this timid snail keeps going out and coming back to its own small shelter, it creates desires to be free of the shell and to be in contact with the illusive image of itself that it loves so much. A snail is mostly self-productive, and I was thinking of an image of Narcissus who loved itself so much, but sadly two separate identities could not meet. Narcissus is not a special person to be blamed as an ill figure as some psychologists perceive. I find he is the portrait of anyone’s adolescent ego. Many people die even before they get to see themselves and think of who they are. If anyone happened to see the image of self reflected to the calm pond, the one should be blessed for its starting point to lead one’s own life thereafter unless one does not confuse her/him with others.
Fish on a Tree in a Little Pond (appx. 5min.)
Sound score by Evelyn Ficarra: Fish Pond for Young Sun
:Lee is trying to talk about unachievable dream. However, life seems to be richer because of the unachievable dream and illusion, and they expand the boundary of life. A fish and a tree live in different spaces. One windy day, they happened to see and started to desire each other. Though the desire cannot come true unless one of them dies, the pond can make these two meet through the illusive reflection on the water surface. They look distorted and undulate as the wind disturbs the water. Also, the scene can be only observed by a mindless onlooker. So, it is a beautiful tragedy. Young-Sun’s body dances all these abstractions in honor of their desires. The piece was created into a poem and a fairy tale.
Interval: Time (appx. 3:30min.)
Sound score by Evelyn Ficarra, Clocks for Young Sun
Solitary Room Talks to Me (appx. 11min.)
Sound score by Evelyn Ficarra, Young Sun Mix
Fore by Takagi Masakatsu
Die Nacht ist kommen, BWV 296, Performed by Robert Carl
:The piece was made out of Lee’s solitude practice that leaves her alone in an empty room. Lee gathered the materials out of the practice and composed them in space following her mind’s logic. The mind’s logic is intuitive, unexpected, and unconscious, and pursues a different kind of communication against the narrative development of a story from beginning to an end. This is liken to the stream of consciousness in literature. The work links disparate spaces/scenes/movement elements with no plausibility as in a dream, but it somehow reveals self-contained meanings that cannot be verbally spoken or translated.
From <I am ‘His’ House> written by Young-Sun Lee
……
I was born in this little house without a door.
I live with Him, who is splendid
……
I draw numerous doors every day.
I make a wish for those doors become a ‘door’.
Staff
Stage Manager: Hyun Park
Light Designer: Young-Koo Kang
Sound Operator: Sung-Won, Yang
Photography: Woo-Hee Kim
Coordinator/Video Recording: Jin Lee
*Ansan Arts Foundation
Promotion: Soo-Yong Kim
Stage Manager: Joo-Yong Hyun
Choreographic Intention
“Homemade & Organic are the two words that best represent my work process with movement and its quality. I prepared the works with numerous movement vocabularies out of my own body as a main object, which still looks strange and new though I live with it every day.” The performance consists of four movement solos and a video work; Snail III-Sexy Snail, Young-Sun Lee, Fish on a Tree in a Little Pond, Solitary Room Talks to Me, and Hairy Square Snail. The works are presented with short intervals between pieces, but they flow as if audiences were watching one full-length of work. Evelyn Ficarra and Kyja K-Nelson participated in the performance partially as a music and a video collaborator. The works feature pure abstract movement vocabularies with self-contained meanings, their unexpected compositional mix in space, and imaginative images derived out of this process as a whole.”
Collaboration with Evelyn Ficarra
Evelyn Ficarra has been collecting sounds since her early twenties, using them in her composition practice on an equal level with musical instrument and vocal sound sources, in a variety of musical and collaborative contexts. Since 2009 she has developed simple interfaces using the software program Max MSP with which she can improvise with these sounds, deploying them and manipulating them in real time performance situations. The pieces in this program are a mixture of
through-composed concert pieces from Ficarra's earlier repertoire (such as Deuce and vagues fenêtres); simple soundscapes with minimal processing (Rain for Young Sun and Waves for Young Sun); and pieces generated through
improvisation with the sounds (Clocks for Young Sun and Young Sun Mix, and also the sound track for the short film). All the pieces entitled 'sound scores' in this program were gathered together for Young Sun, specifically for this collaboration, in consultation with her. Young Sun Mix was improvised in the studio at the Djerassi resident artist program where they met.
Program
Opening: Waiting for Sexy Snail (appx. 20min.)
Sound Score by Evelyn Ficarra, Rain for Young Sun
Snail III-Sexy Snail (appx. 7min.)
Music by Evelyn Ficarra, excerpts from Vagues Fenêtres, for string trio and electronics, 2010
: It is the third piece in the Snail Series followed by Fast Snail and Timid Snail, inspired by a yellow banana slug and its sexual and flexible movement. Tyra Banks once said in a TV show that sexiness is not a certain pose but a way to present oneself. I integrated these conceptual and physical ideas of sexiness into a solo. Also, I tried to contrast and abstract the violent environment and invisible threat placed against this fragile object or feminine quality using musical elements and
limited space usage.
The electronic part from the original music, vagues / fenêtres (which translates as ‘waves / windows’) was used for this piece: “The electronic part is made entirely from string sounds, recorded during studio sessions with Victor Huguenin (violin), Nils Bultman (viola) and Ambre Tamagna (cello). (Evelyn Ficarra)”
Interval: Sexy Snail Goes to the Sea (appx. 5min.)
Sound Score by Evelyn Ficarra, Waves for Young Sun
:“On a rainy day in spring 2012, I saw rows of tiny snails that were crawling on the road by the San Antonio beach in California. I almost tramped on them. And we shared silent greetings and went our own ways.”
Young Sun Lee (appx. 5min.)
Music by Evelyn Ficarra, a 4:37 excerpt from Deuce (1993) for baroque flute, harpsichord and tape
: Young-Sun Lee is a self expressed in dance and Lee’s journey into the essence of dance. Lee learned that her physical characteristics could not be reconciled with the existing movement techniques such as ballet or modern techniques named as Merce or Martha. She took this difference as her strength and intended to create her own vocabulary that does not look like anyone’s style but her own. She dares to name her dance as Young-Sun Lee.
The piece was chosen to represent the dance dept. of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for the 2010 American College Dance Festival (national) and was finally selected as a finalist for the 2010 Best Student Performer/Choreographer Award out of over 530 pieces submitted (pieces are choreographed by students, professional guest choreographers, and faculties and audited in a public setting anonymously), which is biannually sponsored by the Kennedy Center and Dance Magazine. The piece was invited to perform at a gala concert in the Kennedy Center and was produced numerously in different venues such as the Krannert Center for Performing Arts, the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center (the Charlotte Dance Festival), the Ford Amphitheater (commissioned by the Dream Dance Foundation in LA), and others.
Deuce takes its starting point from two related gestures: that of a ball being batted back and forth, and the sound of it bouncing to a stop on a hard surface. The former provides the rhythmic impetus for much of the piece, while the latter
generates the structure, in this way: initially, longer sections, each with a clearly defined sound world, alternate in gradually diminishing durations, until the disparate sounds intermingle in quick-fire juxtaposition, moving at last into a sustained finish (the ball bounces more and more quickly, then rolls away.
The sounds on the tape were largely derived from recordings of the instruments of Jane Chapman and Eleanor Dawson (harpsichord and baroque flute respectively.) These recordings were made in summer in non-sound proofed conditions and were thus liberally scattered with birdsong. Evelyn decided to make a virtue of this by using these ’extraneous’ sounds to develop the pitch material of the piece. She was greatly aided in this by a very insistent blackbird who sang outside her
window as she worked; he also found his way onto the tape.
Deuce was commissioned by Eleanor Dawson in 1992 with funds from the Arts Council of Great Britain and received its premiere performance in Belfast in March, 1993.
Video-soul/soul(appx. 5 Min.)
Video by Young Sun Lee
Animation by Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson
Sound Score by Evelyn Ficarra
:The Hairy Square Snail lives in the screen shell where there is no space for others to come in. As this timid snail keeps going out and coming back to its own small shelter, it creates desires to be free of the shell and to be in contact with the illusive image of itself that it loves so much. A snail is mostly self-productive, and I was thinking of an image of Narcissus who loved itself so much, but sadly two separate identities could not meet. Narcissus is not a special person to be blamed as an ill figure as some psychologists perceive. I find he is the portrait of anyone’s adolescent ego. Many people die even before they get to see themselves and think of who they are. If anyone happened to see the image of self reflected to the calm pond, the one should be blessed for its starting point to lead one’s own life thereafter unless one does not confuse her/him with others.
Fish on a Tree in a Little Pond (appx. 5min.)
Sound score by Evelyn Ficarra: Fish Pond for Young Sun
:Lee is trying to talk about unachievable dream. However, life seems to be richer because of the unachievable dream and illusion, and they expand the boundary of life. A fish and a tree live in different spaces. One windy day, they happened to see and started to desire each other. Though the desire cannot come true unless one of them dies, the pond can make these two meet through the illusive reflection on the water surface. They look distorted and undulate as the wind disturbs the water. Also, the scene can be only observed by a mindless onlooker. So, it is a beautiful tragedy. Young-Sun’s body dances all these abstractions in honor of their desires. The piece was created into a poem and a fairy tale.
Interval: Time (appx. 3:30min.)
Sound score by Evelyn Ficarra, Clocks for Young Sun
Solitary Room Talks to Me (appx. 11min.)
Sound score by Evelyn Ficarra, Young Sun Mix
Fore by Takagi Masakatsu
Die Nacht ist kommen, BWV 296, Performed by Robert Carl
:The piece was made out of Lee’s solitude practice that leaves her alone in an empty room. Lee gathered the materials out of the practice and composed them in space following her mind’s logic. The mind’s logic is intuitive, unexpected, and unconscious, and pursues a different kind of communication against the narrative development of a story from beginning to an end. This is liken to the stream of consciousness in literature. The work links disparate spaces/scenes/movement elements with no plausibility as in a dream, but it somehow reveals self-contained meanings that cannot be verbally spoken or translated.
From <I am ‘His’ House> written by Young-Sun Lee
……
I was born in this little house without a door.
I live with Him, who is splendid
……
I draw numerous doors every day.
I make a wish for those doors become a ‘door’.
Staff
Stage Manager: Hyun Park
Light Designer: Young-Koo Kang
Sound Operator: Sung-Won, Yang
Photography: Woo-Hee Kim
Coordinator/Video Recording: Jin Lee
*Ansan Arts Foundation
Promotion: Soo-Yong Kim
Stage Manager: Joo-Yong Hyun
Performance: Poetic Images Dancing on Piano Keys
Place: Dream Forest Arts Center, Concert Hall, Seoul
Near Miasamgeori St. Take No 5 Minibus to the entrance of the theater
Date: May 25, 2013 (Sat) 7:30pm
Production by 1 Pound Chocolate Arts Collective
Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performer: Young Sun Lee
Pianist: Sunhye Shim
070-8274-7894 for inquiries
Ticket Reservation: www.interpark.com Or at the theater
30% Off before May 15
<건반 위의 춤추는 시상>은 무용과 피아노가 만들어내는 시적인 상상을 무대공간에 구성한 것이다. 본 공연은 다국적 다원 예술단체인 원파운드초콜릿아트콜렉티브의 첫 번째 제작공연으로서, 예술감독/안무가 이영선과 피아니스트 심선혜가 출연하여 공연을 이끌어 갈 것이다. 또한 동시대 작곡가이자 단체의 협업 아티스트인 에블린 피카라, 잘 알려진 클래식 작곡가 드뷔시, 브람스의 피아노곡이 안무가의 창의적 상상력 안에서 새로이 해석될 것이다. 공연에서 내세우는 특징은 서로 구속하지 않으면서도 조화를 이루는 움직임과 음악의 소통방식, 안무자의 개성있는 움직임 어휘를 통해 표현되는 기묘한 상상력이다. 또한 창작과정에서 도출된 드로잉, 텍스트/시, 패턴 이미지 등을 영상물로 구성하여 공연의 일부로서 상연(프리젠테이션)할 것이다. 이로써 안무자의 창작과정이 스튜디오 리허설뿐만 아니라, 다원적인 접근에서 비롯된다는 것을 관객이 재미있게 이해하도록 할 것이다. 공연 후에는 관객과의 대화를 통해 공연의 이해를 돕도록 소통의 채널을 열고자 한다.
Choreographic Intention
The performance draws poetic imagination made of movement and piano music on stage. This is the first production by 1 Pound Chocolate Arts Collective, featuring Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performer Young Sun Lee, Pianist Sunhye Shim, and Evelyn Ficarra's solo piano piece. During the performance, the piano music by Evelyn Ficarra, Brahms, and Debussy will be newly translated in Lee’s choreographic imagination. The performance will focus on Lee’s exquisite way to communicate between movement and music going beyond notes and movements and idiosyncratic imagination that her strong movement vocabulary brings to the space. Also, it will include a video projection of texts and images drawn from Lee’s choreographic process. At the end of the performance, audiences will have time to talk with the choreographer. The talk will partly model Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process. Step 1: Statements of Meaning; Step 2: Artist As Questioner; Step 3: Neutral Questions from Responders; Step 4: Permissioned Opinions
Program Contents
1. Title: Prelude-Opening of the Performance
Music: BRAHMS: op. 39 Waltzes #1-4
2. Title: Very Long Thread & a Bobcat
Music: DEBUSSY: Suite Bergamasque, L 75 – Passepied
3. Title: Caprice
Music: EVELYN FICARRA: The Arbitrariness of Language
4. Title: Chatterbox
Music: DEBUSSY: Images #1 – Mouvement
5. Title: Fish on a Tree in a Little Pond
Music: DEBUSSY: Images #2 - Poissons D'Or
6. Title: Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum
Music: DEBUSSY: Children's Corner, L 113 - Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum
7. Title: Nun in Handstand
Music: DEBUSSY: Preludes, Book 1, L 117 - La Cathédrale Engloutie
8. Video Epilogue---------------- Creative Fishing
9. Talk with Choreographer
Near Miasamgeori St. Take No 5 Minibus to the entrance of the theater
Date: May 25, 2013 (Sat) 7:30pm
Production by 1 Pound Chocolate Arts Collective
Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performer: Young Sun Lee
Pianist: Sunhye Shim
070-8274-7894 for inquiries
Ticket Reservation: www.interpark.com Or at the theater
30% Off before May 15
<건반 위의 춤추는 시상>은 무용과 피아노가 만들어내는 시적인 상상을 무대공간에 구성한 것이다. 본 공연은 다국적 다원 예술단체인 원파운드초콜릿아트콜렉티브의 첫 번째 제작공연으로서, 예술감독/안무가 이영선과 피아니스트 심선혜가 출연하여 공연을 이끌어 갈 것이다. 또한 동시대 작곡가이자 단체의 협업 아티스트인 에블린 피카라, 잘 알려진 클래식 작곡가 드뷔시, 브람스의 피아노곡이 안무가의 창의적 상상력 안에서 새로이 해석될 것이다. 공연에서 내세우는 특징은 서로 구속하지 않으면서도 조화를 이루는 움직임과 음악의 소통방식, 안무자의 개성있는 움직임 어휘를 통해 표현되는 기묘한 상상력이다. 또한 창작과정에서 도출된 드로잉, 텍스트/시, 패턴 이미지 등을 영상물로 구성하여 공연의 일부로서 상연(프리젠테이션)할 것이다. 이로써 안무자의 창작과정이 스튜디오 리허설뿐만 아니라, 다원적인 접근에서 비롯된다는 것을 관객이 재미있게 이해하도록 할 것이다. 공연 후에는 관객과의 대화를 통해 공연의 이해를 돕도록 소통의 채널을 열고자 한다.
Choreographic Intention
The performance draws poetic imagination made of movement and piano music on stage. This is the first production by 1 Pound Chocolate Arts Collective, featuring Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performer Young Sun Lee, Pianist Sunhye Shim, and Evelyn Ficarra's solo piano piece. During the performance, the piano music by Evelyn Ficarra, Brahms, and Debussy will be newly translated in Lee’s choreographic imagination. The performance will focus on Lee’s exquisite way to communicate between movement and music going beyond notes and movements and idiosyncratic imagination that her strong movement vocabulary brings to the space. Also, it will include a video projection of texts and images drawn from Lee’s choreographic process. At the end of the performance, audiences will have time to talk with the choreographer. The talk will partly model Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process. Step 1: Statements of Meaning; Step 2: Artist As Questioner; Step 3: Neutral Questions from Responders; Step 4: Permissioned Opinions
Program Contents
1. Title: Prelude-Opening of the Performance
Music: BRAHMS: op. 39 Waltzes #1-4
2. Title: Very Long Thread & a Bobcat
Music: DEBUSSY: Suite Bergamasque, L 75 – Passepied
3. Title: Caprice
Music: EVELYN FICARRA: The Arbitrariness of Language
4. Title: Chatterbox
Music: DEBUSSY: Images #1 – Mouvement
5. Title: Fish on a Tree in a Little Pond
Music: DEBUSSY: Images #2 - Poissons D'Or
6. Title: Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum
Music: DEBUSSY: Children's Corner, L 113 - Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum
7. Title: Nun in Handstand
Music: DEBUSSY: Preludes, Book 1, L 117 - La Cathédrale Engloutie
8. Video Epilogue---------------- Creative Fishing
9. Talk with Choreographer
Performance with NI:SE Ensemble
I am performing two solos with Ni:Se Ensemble (Chamber Music) in their concert. I will be performing a new solo piece to Voice of Whale by George Crumb and reimagining my Snail III-Sexy Snail piece to a newly composed music by A-Young Kim. Pls come to see the performance! Such a beautiful music!
May 13, 2013
7:30pm
Dance/Choreography: Young-Sun Lee
May 13, 2013
7:30pm
Dance/Choreography: Young-Sun Lee
Korea-UK Connection: Arts Exchange Programme 2012 (Nov 11-Dec 4)
Visit London, Edinburgh, Brighton, & Bristol (Placement in the Place in London and Dance Base in Edinburgh)
-To gain understanding of arts scene in the UK
-To identify opportunities, partneships, and arts exchanges
-To network with right people
-To share experiences and knowledge
-To see and discuss work with Music Collaborator, Evelyn
Granted by both British Art Council and Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS)
-To gain understanding of arts scene in the UK
-To identify opportunities, partneships, and arts exchanges
-To network with right people
-To share experiences and knowledge
-To see and discuss work with Music Collaborator, Evelyn
Granted by both British Art Council and Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS)
Djerassi Resident Artists Award Program
Woodside, CA. USA
Mar 13-April 12, 2012
http://www.djerassi.org/index.html
2012 Artists
Sigrid Gilmer, Pasadena, CA. Playwright
Evelyn Ficarra, Oakland, CA. Composer
Adam Kalinowski, Poznan, Poland. Visual Artist
Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, Fargo, ND. Media Artist
Young Sun Lee, Cheonan-City, Korea. Choreographer
Nova Ren Suma, New York, NY. Writer
Martin Schmidt, Munich, Germany. Visual Artist
Joy Wood, Brooklyn, NY. Writer
Mar 13-April 12, 2012
http://www.djerassi.org/index.html
2012 Artists
Sigrid Gilmer, Pasadena, CA. Playwright
Evelyn Ficarra, Oakland, CA. Composer
Adam Kalinowski, Poznan, Poland. Visual Artist
Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, Fargo, ND. Media Artist
Young Sun Lee, Cheonan-City, Korea. Choreographer
Nova Ren Suma, New York, NY. Writer
Martin Schmidt, Munich, Germany. Visual Artist
Joy Wood, Brooklyn, NY. Writer
Program Note of <Homemade & Organic>
Choreographic Intention
Some say that there is nothing new under the sun. However, if we look at the world from a slightly different angle, each person, each individual life, or a flower that blooms anew everyday is all new. Lee understands originality in art as innate individuality of living organisms that cannot be reproduced. “Young Sun Lee” refers not only to the artist herself, but also to her major artistic object, an attractive source of artistic creation, which has been already created perfect by god. This object does not look like any others and can think, create, and become an art work itself. Besides, it never gets boring since it keeps changing as it lives its own life. Lee’s dance cannot be separated from the artist, and thus cannot be lost and will die together as she dies. Her dance is her jewel that she has discovered inside her. She has refined this jewel and has made a dance that just looks like her but no one else.
Poster Image
The front image of the poster represents her show well. It uses a minimal color palette of black and her skin tone. In this show, there are no fancy lighting effects, decorative set designs, or pretentious movement elements and costume designs that hide her pure movement. The entire show mainly uses silence and minimal ambient sounds. Her dance is self-contained, needing nothing else, like a well-performed cello solo in a concert hall. Her dance is a pure statement of who she is and the result of her tenacious search for the essence in dance. The black color and the square symbolize a black box theater, from which she is about to break out into the world. Every new work of art is like a newborn baby for most artists. The organic line of her body in the picture connotes the movement quality of her pieces. Looking at the picture closely, you will find another image of the artist's body overlapping with itself. Lee took the picture herself, and the original title of the picture is Snail IV-Hairy Square Snail. Most snail species are self-reproductive, meaning they have both male and female characteristics in one body. They don't allow anyone else in their shell but themselves. Thus, her first solo collection may symbolize her invitation to the audience into her shell for the first time.
Inside the poster is the program that contains the work introductions, artist statement, creative process, biography, etc.
The program included four solos; Young Sun Lee I, Snail lII-Sexy Snail, Fish on a Tree in a Little Pond, and Solitary Room Talks to Me.
Some say that there is nothing new under the sun. However, if we look at the world from a slightly different angle, each person, each individual life, or a flower that blooms anew everyday is all new. Lee understands originality in art as innate individuality of living organisms that cannot be reproduced. “Young Sun Lee” refers not only to the artist herself, but also to her major artistic object, an attractive source of artistic creation, which has been already created perfect by god. This object does not look like any others and can think, create, and become an art work itself. Besides, it never gets boring since it keeps changing as it lives its own life. Lee’s dance cannot be separated from the artist, and thus cannot be lost and will die together as she dies. Her dance is her jewel that she has discovered inside her. She has refined this jewel and has made a dance that just looks like her but no one else.
Poster Image
The front image of the poster represents her show well. It uses a minimal color palette of black and her skin tone. In this show, there are no fancy lighting effects, decorative set designs, or pretentious movement elements and costume designs that hide her pure movement. The entire show mainly uses silence and minimal ambient sounds. Her dance is self-contained, needing nothing else, like a well-performed cello solo in a concert hall. Her dance is a pure statement of who she is and the result of her tenacious search for the essence in dance. The black color and the square symbolize a black box theater, from which she is about to break out into the world. Every new work of art is like a newborn baby for most artists. The organic line of her body in the picture connotes the movement quality of her pieces. Looking at the picture closely, you will find another image of the artist's body overlapping with itself. Lee took the picture herself, and the original title of the picture is Snail IV-Hairy Square Snail. Most snail species are self-reproductive, meaning they have both male and female characteristics in one body. They don't allow anyone else in their shell but themselves. Thus, her first solo collection may symbolize her invitation to the audience into her shell for the first time.
Inside the poster is the program that contains the work introductions, artist statement, creative process, biography, etc.
The program included four solos; Young Sun Lee I, Snail lII-Sexy Snail, Fish on a Tree in a Little Pond, and Solitary Room Talks to Me.
