○ Date: 12pm, August 10th
○ Venue : Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh
○ Pannel: Pat Fisher(Principal curator, Talbot Rice Gallery), Seongeun Kim(Nam June Paik Art Center Curator), Chaeyoung Lee(Nam June Paik Art Center Curator), Sangae Park(Nam June Paik Art Center, Archivist)


○ Date : August 9th – August 10th
○ Performer : Takehisa Kosugi, Okkyung Lee, Byungjun Kwon, Haroon Mirza
○ Venue : Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh
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Okkyung Lee (1975, Korea)The Swan: Replay in Polyester+TakehisaKosugi (1938, Japan)Op Music

Photo caption: (left)Okkyuung Lee, Photoby Sebastian Sighell+ (right)TakehisaKosugi, JULY 20 for PAIK, Nam June Paik Art Center, 2012 Courtesy of the artist and Nam June Paik Art Center

Okkyung Lee (1975, Korea)
The Swan: Replay in Polyester
Lee has been developing her own voice in a contemporary cello performance, improvisation and composition for more than a decade by blending her wide interests and influencesThe SwanReplay in Polyester is a multi-channel sound performance combining the cello and cassette tapes. Withthe memory of her early yearspractisingThe Swan by Camille Saint-Saens, and her impression of the radical performance Variations on a Theme by Saint-Saens by Charlotte Moorman and Paik, Lee renders a new interpretation of the classical cello piece in the way that raises a question about the beauty intrinsic to music.

TakehisaKosugi (1938, Japan)
Op Music
Kosugi is a composer and performer who took part in the Fluxus movement in the early 1960s. He performs his compositions for live-electronic music which include Cycles (1981), Streams (1991), Op Music (2001), Music for Nearly 90, Part-A (2009) and Octet (2011).Most of them were commissioned for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The revised shorter versions for the quad sound utilize homemade audio generators, ready-made sound processors and light to sound/sound to light interactive materials which create an audiovisual presentation of electronic music.


Byungjun Kwon (1971, Korea) This is Me+HaroonMirza (1977, UK)The Calling

Byungjun Kwon (1971, Korea) This is Me+HaroonMirza (1977, UK)The Calling

Byungjun Kwon
This is Me
Kwon started his musical career in the early 1990s as a singer/songwriter and has released seven albums. He creates music for diverse art practicesdeveloping his own electronic instruments and performance tools. This work is part of his performance series, Small One to Have All. In this audiovisual performance produced by mechanical manipulation of the ‘seeds’ of sound coming from his own body, he draws on the technology of face mapping and morphing, projecting the images created live in real time onto a performer’s face.

HaroonMirza (1977, UK)
The Calling
Mirza is a British artist whose works trigger audiovisual experiences by deploying domestic appliances and analogue divicesl.The Callingis derived from his previous video work, Adhãn (2009). Adhãn is the Islamic calling, recited five times a day by a muezzin in order to gather people to prayer. In the new work The Calling (2013), Mirza has removed all monotheist connotations and has instead investigated the seductive qualities of sound and music. Lights and radios are given roles and the sounds coming from them create a context where performers come to be united with the objects. Cellist Okkyung Lee makes a special guest appearance.