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. The sound composition from this project 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 August-September 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