Soyeon Park

We are just animals, humans, and machines getting on together in specific lifeworlds

Breath Mark x Lisa Hall & Hannah Kemp-Welch

Breath Mark, a curatorial collective formed as part of the RCA’s MA Curating Contemporary Art programme, has commissioned sound artists Lisa Hall and Hannah Kemp-Welch for Furtherfield’s People’s Park Plinth. Furtherfield strives to produce work that gives people a shared sense of ownership of their lives and localities and in 2021 People’s Park Plinth is imagining the whole of Finsbury Park as a platform for public digital art where people can explore a range of artworks and then choose the one they want to experience more of. Hall and Kemp-Welch’s work will be voted on in August, and has the potential to be expanded into a three part listening experience that takes the themes of connection across species further.

Hall and Kemp-Welch present a listening experience taking you on a journey through the park, suggesting new ways of experiencing this vital green space. Turning up the volume on non-human inhabitants in Finsbury Park, the sonic artwork creates moments of connection between strangers of all species. You can tune into the voices of different park user groups and sounds of many species on your digital devices: scan a QR code located outside of the Furtherfield Gallery to open a sound-based navigation system, developed in collaboration with Studio Hyte. This leads you to a place where you can pause, listen and consider the social and ecological concerns of the area. The destination serves as a meeting point, forming new, shifting listening communities across the park and amplifying the voices of local park user groups.

As part of extended public engagement, Breath Mark has collaborated with design studio An Endless Supply, on a digital microsite acting as a reading room allowing audiences to further engage with the artwork’s themes.

Look for the companions around you.

Draw closer to the unheard, the silenced, the unwanted sounds.

Tune in, feel, communicate.

Extend your senses and rest in them.

Soyeon Park is a curator, artist and researcher based in London and Seoul. She sees herself as an art curator with a broad range of potentials who can absorb diverse realms such as science, technology, business or even bio-industry. Art is no longer a discrete study that solely exists as a single industry, it functions as a stage of interaction amongst different disciplines.

Thinking about the importance of discovering diverse shifts upon the interaction between art and technology, her dissertation 'New[er] Media Art: Interactive, Immersive and Experiential' points out the paradox hidden in the term 'new' media art through interactive and immersive case studies. She navigates new 'behaviours' of media art instead of investigating new 'types' of media art. In relation to the paper, she thinks curators need to capture what stimulations and experiences media art provides to the audience and consider the potential functions of technology which explicitly affect visitors’ experiences.

As a member of the collective Breath Mark, Soyeon has commissioned two sound artists Lisa Hall and Hannah Kemp-Welch and curated a digital and interactive sound work 'We are just animals, humans, and machines getting on together in specific lifeworlds' in partnership with Furtherfield Gallery in London.

Soyeon is currently running an Instagram account, @thewomanartist_ as a co-curator. The account celebrates the identity, achievements and historical contexts of all women artists around the world. The Woman Artist has collaborated with MT Art Agency, Mora Ltd., Greek Artists' Hub, etc., by featuring numerous female artists and exhibitions. Before starting MA CCA, she has studied at Seoul National University with a BFA in Oriental Painting.

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