date > 16.09.2016
location > Monastero di Sabiona | Kloster Säben, Chiusa | Klausen
AHN Yiho > Pansori
LEE Jeun, YUN Jaewon > Performance
JIL Minah, LEE Kipum, PARK Minhee > Gagok
Conceived and directed by > PARK Minhee
KIM Sangyeob > Stage Manager
YI Cecilia Soojeong > Project manager
Co-produced with Festival Bo:m
camera/editing > Max Valenti
No longer Gagok: room5↻ is a '박박parkpark’s Gagok project that modifies an esthetical research into a language of physicality (voice and movement) and space. It dissolves *Gagok from various angles and transforms it into the visual and auditory, letting the audience complete the work by experiencing, rather than watching, the work.
박박parkpark is a performing arts project group which explores the post-colonial approach in dealing with traditional art and questions the customary forms of performance. 박박parkpark’s projects start from the concepts proposed by PARK Minhee, who has been collecting Gagok with her body as the medium. They are built through her collaboration with friends and complete when the relation between the content and audience is established.
*Gagok: Classical Korean vocal music using odes as its lyrics. It was popular in salons of the 18th century and believed to originate from around the 15th century. Embedded with the locality of the city of Seoul in the past, it is a very structured art form that it is mainly known for its formal beauty.
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Gagok ist Poesie. Sie braucht Raum und Zeit um ihre Schönheit im Zuhörer entfalten zu können. Diese traditionelle Form koreanischer Vokalmusik, die im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert in den literarischen Salons Seouls entstanden ist, besticht vor allem durch ihre formale Schönheit. Die koreanische Performancegruppe 박박parkpark hat die traditionelle Musikform in eine zeitgenössische Sprache übersetzt: No longer Gagok: room5↻ ist eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Raum, ein Spiel mit der Perspektive, ein Einlassen auf das Gegenüber. Eine ganz persönliche Erfahrung.
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No longer Gagok: room5↻ è un progetto del gruppo di artisti performativi koreani 박박parkpark. Gagok è un genere musicale vocale koreano, il cui il testo è formato da un’ode. Divenuto popolare nel diciottesimo secolo grazie ai salotti letterari di Seoul, è un'arte molto strutturata che si caratterizza per la sua bellezza formale. Attingendo a questa tradizione, 박박parkpark modifica la ricerca estetica trasformandola in un linguaggio di fisicità (voce e movimento) e spazio. Il Gagok, così, si ritrova ad essere scomposto in elementi uditivi e visuali. Nel suggestivo spazio del Convento di Sabbiona, il pubblico di Transart potrà incontrare questo lontano linguaggio, scoprirne la misticità e la forza evocativa.