“My Garage Band,” an amateur band of character-pictograms created by Photoshop, is the lead band of this concert. The Flash-animated band members play instruments and dance to music sources produced by music composition software “GarageBand.” This project expands Hong’s artistic realm from a spatial grid to temporal one. Long-time artistic research and efforts to reduce objects to geometric forms develops here into more organic and spatial temporal dimensions. This project turns more attention toward the artist’s own internal state of mind through arbitrary movements and sounds. The work of images and sounds, in this context, is essentially a process of searching for the expressive potential of “cosmic” language. The “cosmic” language can also be found in the architectural value of the Nam-Seoul Living Arts Museum (the former Belgian Embassy), as the project creates a non-spatial contact with and non-temporal experience of modern Korea.
