ACT Festival 2017: Inbetween Dramatic Networking

The 3rd festival theme exhibition of ACT Center 《Inbetween Dramatic Networking》 focuses on the point that the process of creating art starts from relationships between you and the world, you and others, and you and communities. Questions about relationships require insights into networking and media. The exhibition raises a question about how the networking of factors, “Inbetweens” would be presented. The 3rd ACT Festival aims to share dramatic “Inbetweens” created through  ever-changing networks between me, the world, and others captured with artistic insights based on advanced technologies and media.

<mesh.0.1.0> started with the question, ‘what is reality?’. The artist looked at the space, society, and our reality as a system and visualized it into the work. The work takes the form of a tight mesh so that it can concentrate on the relationship and structure of individual objects, resulting in a complex and geometric structure. 

<m3 (the sound in between invisible and visible), sound ver.> is the work about sounds existing between visible and invisible things. Sound is a material that has a special weight and can be influenced by gravity. Through this work, the audience can experience the world which is not seen but still exists.

Graycode is a composer, sound/media artist who works based on technologies and scientific imagination. 

<connect us> is a work which utilizes data of cryptocurrency transactions  around the world. A decentralized, horizontal block chain system, where everything in the world is connected with one another, is displayed as an audio-visual work. 

Tacit Group shows lecture performances with the works exploring an unfound world with the focus on organic relationships of sounds. 

<fragments> (2017) is an installation work as well as a live performance which lets people find signals, expressions and clues to better understand others. Julien Bayle cut and distorted the image of an expressionless person, and showed the result with sounds. Through the work, the audience can find themselves trying to understand who the person in the image is and how they would feel.

<the playground> (2017) is an installation that requires the audience to take part in. They can find hidden pieces of works, and bring them to the exhibition space, where they would connect the pieces to the statute of <the playground>.  The work encourages the audience to participate, providing them with an opportunity to personalize the work as well as the experience.

<mudeung fantasia – virtual garden of cogitation>, a video virtually reproduced and  reconstructed, turns the forest of Mudeung into a place for meditation and rest, just like the mother's arms. The audience can walk through the translucent screens showing videos of Mt. Mudeung, enjoying the pleasant scenery.

<khz> (2017) is a work about a mutual relationship between humans and technology, as well as a material relationship between humans and non-humans. The work visualizes the waves and patterns of ultrasonic waves that cannot be heard by human ears into a light, which is destroyed as soon as it’s generated. The audience can feel the beauty of a life through moments when cells release light as they die.

This is a performance that expresses  despair and beauty of the future where boundaries between nature, technology, and people will disappear. The work poses a fundamental question about the existence of human beings, and asks the directions we should head in the future.

Fuse * is a group of digital art and design work using code and digital technology. <dökk> is an interactive work composed of light, space, and sound which enables the audience to experience space and time of the universe.