ritual for the night

saturday march 26th 2022 15.00 – 18.00 hrs

15.15 – 15.45 hrs artist talk: conversation between
sanneke huisman (writer/art critic) and jaehun park

16.30 – 17.00 hrs special live audio/visual performance
‘spirituality and technology’ ivo bol (sound artist) and jaehun park

will an a.i. shaman heal the planet? and if so, what medium will be used? this live audiovisual performance explores the connection between spirituality and technology, and humanity’s impact on the earth in the age of the anthropocene. both park and bol deal with a world disturbed by climate change, with the violent reality of melting and distorted icebergs. using various electronic devices and live processes, bol’s sound will morph into park’s visual world. bol’s music assimilates unintended and often overlooked sounds and structures. the hum of a fridge, or the sound of a record just before it starts. performing with body and mind, he manipulates these sounds using light sensors, touch, gesture or brainwaves. in doing so, this re-imagining of park’s work transfigures the whole into a new physical reality.

jaehun park (born 1986, south korea; lives and works in amsterdam) graduated from the department of painting (bfa, mfa) at seoul national university and did the master artistic research at the royal academy of arts in the hague. recent exhibitions include plein theater amsterdam (2022), alternative space loop seoul (2021), sign project space groningen (2021), photo basel (2021), unseen amsterdam (2021), project space 1646 the hague (2019), and artspace o seoul (2016).