Synopsis

A trip to a Japanese island town called Naoshima gave me
a chance to rediscover the meaning of 'home.'
I went to the island on a boat and saw that it was in the midst of
a village reconstruction project refurbishing old houses.
This is perhaps where it all started.
I began to wonder what a home as a place means to me.
Coincidentally, while having this question at the back of my mind,
I came to know about contemporary artist Choi Jung Hwa’s studio
which used to be an old traditional Korean house.
Although I wasn’t actively trying to seek the answer to my question,
I ended up playing at that studio every now and then, with the vague hope of finding the answer.
One day, while playing extemporaneously at the studio,
I met a version of ‘me’ who was subconsciously playing to the rawest tunes.
That moment was the time when I was playing to the sound of a certain force inside me while completely focusing on myself.
It dawned on me that the relatioship between home and myself encompasses the past,
present and future and that a place called 'home' finally becomes complete in such a link transcending time and space.

Sound seems to fade from memory, but as the body remembers its tunes,
it subconsciously guides me from the present to the future.
Doesn’t everything start at home, a place where we are born, and form our identity?
This is just the beginning of my journey. However, at that moment, all I wanted was to solely focus on the instinctive sound in me,
and this is how I started a project called HOME.
This performance sets out to record the rawest sounds.
It is reproduced with Seo Jung Min’s first solo Album [COSMOS 25] that captures raw emotions and
instinctive sounds while focusing on improvisation. Moreover,
it is also a performance that attempts to seek the answer of my lifelong curiosity.

Promotion Information
· Director : Jung-Min Seo
· Duration : 30min
· Stage size(W*D*H) : 5*2.7*1m
· Tour size(Performer+Staff) : 6(Performers 4, Staffs 2)

ⓒWoong-chul An