Five Spells & A Song
2023.09.23 –
2023.09.23
The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP Performance Five Spells & A Song. Artist: Mercedes Azpilicueta. Cooperation: Lee Seung-hee. Gosu (percussionist) & music: Lee Hyang Ha. Research and assistance: Antonia Fratini. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. 09. 23. Photo: GLIMWORKERS
The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP Performance Five Spells & A Song. Artist: Mercedes Azpilicueta. Cooperation: Lee Seung-hee. Gosu (percussionist) & music: Lee Hyang Ha. Research and assistance: Antonia Fratini. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. 09. 23. Photo: GLIMWORKERS
The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP Performance Five Spells & A Song. Artist: Mercedes Azpilicueta. Cooperation: Lee Seung-hee. Gosu (percussionist) & music: Lee Hyang Ha. Research and assistance: Antonia Fratini. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. 09. 23. Photo: GLIMWORKERS
The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP Performance Five Spells & A Song. Artist: Mercedes Azpilicueta. Cooperation: Lee Seung-hee. Gosu (percussionist) & music: Lee Hyang Ha. Research and assistance: Antonia Fratini. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. 09. 23. Photo: GLIMWORKERS
The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP Performance Five Spells & A Song. Artist: Mercedes Azpilicueta. Cooperation: Lee Seung-hee. Gosu (percussionist) & music: Lee Hyang Ha. Research and assistance: Antonia Fratini. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. 09. 23. Photo: GLIMWORKERS
Five Spells & A Song is a debut performance from artist Mercedes Azpilicueta that takes the form of a multi-lingual operatic Pansori sung by vocalist Lee Seung-hee. The performance’s script is composed of five poems that present histories and struggles of migration and consider the construction of communities through displaced identities. Through the testimonies of Korean women who migrated to Argentina, the work looks at generational movement and the establishment of Korean communities in Buenos Aires, focusing on their significant role in the emergence of the local textile industry beginning in the late 1960s.
