MELA Foundation's Studio View presentation of Jung Hee ChoiÕs recent works, Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest II, has been extended for one additional week. The exhibition will be open Thursday through Saturday, September 17 Ð 19, 2009, from 6 pm to midnight, in the MELA Dream House, 275 Church Street, 3rd floor, New York. Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest II features three multimedia installations, a series of drawings, videos and a sound environment including her new installation work Composition 2009 #1 created with needlepoint drawings on black wrap with video. Viewers experience the drawings as indiscernibly moving light from video projection glowing through the pinholes creating abstract and analogous representation of Manifest Unmanifest.
Jung Hee Choi Works:
Tonecycle Base 65
Hz, 2:3:7, 2007, sound environment: the linear
superposition of 36 sine wave frequencies set in ratios based on the
harmonics 2, 3 and 7 imperceptibly ascending toward fixed frequencies
and then descending toward the starting frequencies, infinitely
revolving as in circles, in parallel and various rates of similar
motion to create continuous slow phase shifts with long beat cycles
RICE,
1999-2009, variable dimensions, multi-channel video installation
Composition 2006
#3 (Spirit), 2006, 60 x 72 in., mixed media: drawing and video
AUM
(incense calligraphy), 2008, 39'09", video
Color
(CNN), 2009, 21'23", video
Drawings:
Composition 2006 #2,
2006, 20 x 24 in.
Composition 2008 #1,
2008, 18 x 24 in.
Composition 2008 #2,
2008, 18 x 24 in.
Composition 2008 #4,
2008, 18 x 24 in.
Composition 2008 #5,
2008, 24 x 36 in.
Jung Hee Choi has worked in a variety of contemporary media: in painting, drawing, video, photography, sculpture, sound and multi-media installations, including several solo and group shows in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Utilizing both traditional and highly experimental techniques, ChoiÕs vision has led to the development of a unique artistic language. Ancient and universal themes inform her work in a process of assessing and defining the nature of reality. Her inquiry focuses on how we perceive being and consciousness, and ultimately, how ideas representing the interaction of opposites intertwine with one another. This pursuit directed Choi toward television as a medium of expression. In 1997, she began to cablecast her video works on Television Art, MNN, exploring television as a process of communication and, more specifically, how ultra-ultra high frequency becomes visible phenomena evolving from the mixture of mind and camera, to attain an instantaneous reaction from a broad spectrum of viewers.
Choi graduated summa cum laude from New York University. She was a founding producer and director for Mantra TV, a cable and webcast vehicle for advanced arts in New York City and Korea from 1998 to 2006. Her programs featured original works of art, music, dance, experimental film, and discussions of the creative processes of art, music, and performance. Choi was curator of Syn‑Aesthetics, the Media Mavericks 1st Experimental Film Festival 2006. She was co-curator of KUEIP 2007 and 2008 (KU Exhibition of International Professors, Seoul, Korea). Choi received The Experimental Television CenterÕs Finishing Funds 2006 award, supported by the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts.
In 1999, Choi became a disciple of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela in the study of music and art, with the classical Kirana tradition gandha bandh red-thread ceremony in 2003. In 2002 she became a founding member of The Just Alap Raga Ensemble and has performed as vocalist in every concert. Since 2007 Choi has been a teaching assistant at the Kirana Center and became an instructor in 2008. Choi has collaborated with Young and Zazeela to produce long-term video documentation of their lives and work, including the Dream House and affiliated events. For the La Monte Young Marian Zazeela and The Just Alap Raga Ensemble long-term video installation of "05 II 05 PM NYC" Raga Sundara, ektal vilampit khayal set in Raga Yaman Kalyan at the Kunst im Regenbogenstadl Dream House, Polling, Germany, Choi was both video director and video mastering producer, as well as a vocalist in the Ensemble. Choi also directed the video of the March 21, 2009 Just Alap Raga Ensemble concert from the Guggenheim Dream House, featuring Young, Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi and DaÕud Constant, voices; Jon Catler, sustainer electric guitar; Charles Curtis, cello; and Naren Budhkar, tabla, which has now been installed permanently at Kunst im Regenbogenstadl, Polling, Germany from the opening of their 2009 season, replacing the video of the 2005 Raga Sundara performance.
Choi presented RICE, a video sound performance and installation in a setting of Marian ZazeelaÕs Imagic Light environment in the MELA Dream House in May--June 2003, and in October--November 2005 as a part of the La Monte Young 70th birthday celebration. The 2003 presentation was chosen as one of The 10 Best of 2003 in the December Artforum. Chrissie Iles wrote, ÒThis video-sound work was presented in May at Dream House, the permanent installation of La Monte YoungÕs eternal music and Marian ZazeelaÕs magenta lights, and one of Dia founder Heiner FriedrichÕs great legacies. A hypnotic projection of rotating mandalic forms radiated out from ZazeelaÕs magenta color field like silent fireworks, while the sound of Choi tracing a circle around the top of an overturned cooking pot with a rice paddle created a single repeating tone that resonated deep in the solar plexus.Ó On March 28, 2009, Choi presented a live video sound performance and installation of RICE with Composition in the style of La Monte YoungÕs 1960 sustained friction sounds in a setting of Marian Zazeela Imagic Light II in the Young / Zazeela Dream House at the Guggenheim Museum as part of The Third Mind Live series.
Her three-week solo drawings, video, sound
installation, Ahata
Anahata, The manifest The unmanifest, As a wheel that is one-rimmed and
threefold with one-hundred and one spokes and where the illusion of the
one springs from the other two, was presented in April, 2007 at
New YorkÕs Tompkins Square Gallery. Choi presented two films in
FRESH 2007, a festival of international video art and short films,
CODE, Bangkok, Thailand, and video sound installations at Chuncheon
International Mime Festival 2007 and 2008, Chuncheon, Korea.
ChoiÕs drawing video sound installations were exhibited in Asian
Contemporary Art Fair, New York in November 2008 and Art Asia Miami in
December 2008.