ACC Residency 2023 commences in Gwangju

2023 Asia Culture Center (ACC) Residency has embarked on its 7-month journey with 9 participants from around the world. Since its inception in 2015, ACC Residency has been inviting creators and researchers from various fields including art, science, technology and humanities to inspire inventive ideas and trigger interdisciplinary exchange. In this year’s open call for the Residency, 340 applicants from 46 countries applied among which 9 participants with backgrounds ranging from technical research, visual arts, academic research, sound art to media art and interdisciplinary art were selected.

The Residency has been exploring imminent issues of the time. This year, in collaboration with ACC Sound Art Lab, it is held under the theme Futures of Listening. Whereas the notion of listening has been more often defined from the Western perspective, Futures of Listening examines it within the Asian context. The project encourages artists to investigate issues arising in different cities in Asia and translate them through the lens of soundscape. For this, ACC Sound Art Lab has invited 4 soundscape experts to provide workshops and lectures to the Residency participants. The first session “Urban Soundscape (Scoring the City)” was led by Gascia Ouzounian, professor of University of Oxford and Suk-Jun Kim, professor of University of Aberdeen. Artists visited Goryeoin village the town where immigrants who have settled in Gwangju are living and collected sound with which they then created into individual notes. The following session entitled Data Sonification was led by Park Tae Hong, professor of New York University where he introduced various methodologies and perspectives regarding sound data processing. Two more sessions are planned in June which will be conducted by artist Christina Kubisch and meLê yamomo, professor of Amsterdam University.

The programs of Futures of Listening aim at offering inspiration and imparting technical knowledge to the participants based on which they will be creating individual projects. Participants are also enjoying the benefit of ACC’s facilities for woodwork, metalwork and other  areas as well as the professional assistance from in-house technicians. The outcome of this Residency will be unveiled through the showcase exhibition which is planned to open on November 11th, 2023, as well as workshops and collateral programs and performances at ACT Festival.

George Hiraoka Cloke
George Hiraoka Cloke is an audio-visual artist, musician and researcher from Kent, UK. His practice integrates notions of acoustemology, ecological awareness and seeding better futures through attentive listening and acoustic imagination.

Jeong Ahram
Jeong Ahram organizes participatory and collaborative performances by creating new connections and mediations between individuals as actors and other individuals, non-human objects and technological devices.

Jueng Hye Jin
Portraying the othering in the society based on her research on microhistory, Jueng Hey Jin envisions possible future communities using the language of films or through multidisciplinary collaborations.

Kim Joon
Creating soundscape using collected sound reconstructed based on geological and communicational research, Kim Joon experiments the possibility of perceiving and understanding invisible social structure through sound.

Lee Hyun Min
Through performances and exhibitions, Lee Hyun Min creates a space that constitutes of reinterpreted auditory and visual elements, which offer artistic experiences that contradicts our ordinary sensual perception.

Matthew Gingold
Matthew Gingold is a transdisciplinary artist weaving together audiovisual installation, performance and critical theory. Inspired by research into the ai/aes/ethics of digital cultures, trans/mad/ness and non/human complexity, his practice focuses on creating intimate experiences of – and with – technology.

Su Jin Bae and Jonathan Lemke
Su Jin Bae and Jonathan Lemke work as an artist duo based in Berlin, presenting performances and installations that explore themes of alienation(Entfremdung) and transgression(Überschreitung). Their works explore frequently the moral discomfort of human beings and the subtle conflicts that come with existential individual choices.

Yeom Inhwa
Yeom Inhwa creates XR-based “3D performative apparatus-environment” and explores the notions of “performativity” empowered with the cognitive, psychological, and physical participation of audience-performers; of “inter-performativity” that interoperates across the audience-performers and apparatus-environment.