Inhabiting the Breach : Programming for the Conjunctures within Breach section of the Random Access exhibition
Throughout Paik’s practice and writing, random access can be seen as a strategy that allows for the coexistence of multiplicities of differences. In his writing, Paik states “Freedom must have more than two ways, directions, vectors, possibilities of time.” This liberation from the unidirectional flow of time operates the transformation of the viewer into a participant and opens up a world that is no longer restricted to pre-determined representations.

In resonance with Paik’s thoughts and as an alternative activation of the Conjunctures within Breach part of the Random Access exhibition, Tammy Kim’s sculptural installation, 5 Interloc(k)utors, will be activated as a platform to invite artists to engage with the structure or exhibition space on their own terms.

Pedro Lagoa in collaboration with Park Seungjun and Cho Yonghoon
The motivation behind inviting Pedro Lagoa is related to how his practice deals with the de(con)struction of structures and narratives associated with cultural discourses and production. Lagoa’s Archive of Destruction consists of a vast collection of material portraying or addressing acts of destruction that he has amassed over the years. By producing different presentations of it (such as the Museological, Geological, or Educational Sections) Lagoa raises issues regarding notions of culture and consumption, politics and creativity, capital and value.

Pedro Lagoa will collaborate with Seoul-based noise and sound artist Park Seungjun and musician Cho Yonghoon to present a deconstruction of his video titled [a cut through the] archive of destruction. The planned narrative of the original video, composed of several independent and random video segments, will be completely broken. The performers will be forced to improvise as they react to these randomly presented images. The sound, to be worked live by Lagoa, Park, and Cho, will come from the soundtrack of the film that they will have prepared in advance into new sounds (loops, isolated segments, distortions, manipulations, etc). Altered until becoming at times unrecognizable, the sounds, by being played within this situation of randomness, create new image/sound binomials that exceed any previously established notions of structure. In this way, Lagoa, Park and Cho’s intervention activates a confluence of multiplicities that operates a liberating disarrangement of the Conjunctures within Breach logic.