This is me: Audiovisual Performance by ByungJun Kwon 권병준

Opening Performance of "Jungle Shoes". Presented by Kim Kim Gallery, Tripode, -Haus.

ByungJun Kwon started his musical career in the early 1990s as a singer/songwriter and has released seven albums. He creates music for diverse art practices developing 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.

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Oct. 2015

권병준은 싱어송라이터로서 1990년대 초반부터 음악 경력을 시작, 얼터너티브 락에서 미니멀 하우스 장르를 아우르는 앨범을 냈고 영화, 패션쇼, 댄스, 극장, 전통 국악, 퍼포먼스 등 다양한 분야에서 직접 제작한 음향 장치로 작곡, 연주활동을 한다. 현대 음악에서부터 실험적인 전자식 어쿠스틱까지 장르의 범주를 넘나드는 미디어 아티스트이다.

This Is Me was first performed on 10 August 2013 at Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburg for the 2013 Edinburgh International Festival.

Byungjun Kwon’s This Is Me is an experimental electroacoustic improvisational performance involving multiple layers of reverberated and looped sounds accompanied by an interactive video programmed projection. Sonically comprising of sounds made by the artist orally and simple percussive bells, the piece is an exercise in the electronic manipulation of live recorded sound. Kwon’s performance is created concurrently with a piece of video recording and face recognition software. The artist is seated at a table while a camera scans his face and others drawn on paper throughout the performance while the software recognises these images as base data for face mapping. As the piece progresses, several famous faces of actors, politicians and artists are mapped to Kwon’s face via a projector, erasing the artist as if wearing a mask. In contrast to the self-assured title, This Is Me reflects on the inherent anonymity of our current digital era where our personal identity can be endlessly manipulated to erase all traditional conceptions of self.