MIRROR
5th October 2024
6.30pm-7.30pm & 8.30pm-9.30pm
Rosenfeld Gallery
36 Newman Street, London
W1T 1QH
For the past seven years, artist Bongsu Park has explored the world of dreams through performance, immersive installations, audience participation, video, and painting, sharing the unique dream culture of Korea. In collaboration with the Tavistock Institute, Park has delved into the personal and societal significance of dreams, fostering an intimate dialogue with her audience.
With MIRROR, Park shifts her focus from dreams to memory, using this performance as the starting point of a new exploration. Through a sensory-rich performance that invites deep reflection, MIRROR intertwines personal history and collective experiences, allowing audiences to reflect on their own memories while engaging with the memories of others.
This performance draws on sensory experiences—scent, sound, and tactile stimuli—to evoke emotional responses. Through these sensory triggers, MIRROR guides the audience into a space where forgotten or fragmented memories can resurface, inviting them to reconnect with their own past. Park contrasts individual memories with shared cultural experiences, creating a dialogue between the personal and the communal.
For this performance, Park collaborates with three artists. Yidan Kim contributes her expertise in olfactory materials, using scent to deepen the sensory exploration of memory. Kristin Winters, a renowned actor and theatre maker, adds a dramatic narrative layer, embodying the emotional resonance of memory through performance. Haedong Lee, a sound artist, constructs a ‘Sound Ecosystem,’ weaving together electronic instruments and sound objects to create a sonic landscape that evokes the passage of time and the complexity of human history.
Through this multi-disciplinary collaboration, MIRROR offers a powerful insight into how memories shape our sense of self. By engaging the audience through multiple sensory stimuli, the performance becomes a space for reflection, reconnection and transformation.
Director: Bongsu Park
Olfactory Artist: Yidan Kim
Performer: Kristin Winters
Sound Artist: Haedong Lee
supported by
Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism | Korea Arts Management Service | gallery rosenfeld
