Assignment 2: “The workshop: performing sound” by JaeWook Lee (2013)
The workshop: performing sound
The workshop aims at exploring performativity through converting the sound into a bodily experience. The two voluminous speakers, set on the middle of the floor in the lobby, produce two different fragments of the sounds. One produces the Soviet Union composer, Dmitri Shostakovich’s musics. The other produces Charlotte Moorman’s American Avant-guard cello sounds, creating a juxtaposition and a dialogue with each other. In front of the speakers, the performers dance in response to each sound in delay; they perform the music in silence through the memory of the sound, dividing the sounds from its sensory perception. The performers focus on reacting the memory of the music in order to express how the sonic-ideology affects the human body and its movement.
