The wounds left on their bodies turned into scars in our minds.
‘FERVĒRE’ is a research-led artistic project and bi-lingual body of work consisting of multi-format pieces: sound composition/performance, live reading performance, visual poem, video & textual installations, and text publication. The project engages with the practice of homophonic translation (between Korean and English in this case) as a means of excavating ‘over-, mis- and under-heard voice’, and address the particular entanglement of racism and sexism on Asian female body with references to such real-life incidents as Atlanta Spa Shooting and murder of Korean-American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. It narrativise and use the process of wild fermentation (such as Kimchi-making) as a metaphor for survival of trauma, but also for (negative) intercultural assimilation.
This project received support from the Arts Council Northern Ireland (Support for Individual Artist) and British Korean Society. The sound composition from this project ‘Down Gone’ was nominated for Ivor Novello Composers Award 2022.
Performance & Presentation History
- Shoe Factory Social Club, Norwich / November 2022
- The Glad Cafe, Glasgow / October 2022
- Voices in and out of Place (conference) / September 2022
- Sonic Lab Belfast Residency and performance Aug-Sep 2022
- ame space, Huddersfield @zero parameters festival / July 2022
- Dotolim, Seoul / June 2022
- Sonorities Festival @Bananablock, Belfast / April 2022
- Unit 44, Dublin / March 2022
- Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, Derry / March 2022
listen excerpt (Down Gone)