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Lee Hangjun, Hong Chulki - Expanded Celluloid, Extended Phonograph

1. Cracked Share 2. Metaphysics of Sound supplement. live performance at Kunst Doc booklet included running time:69:20

Lee Hangjun: film
Hong Chulki: turntables

video samples

Cracked Share

Metaphysics of Sound

Lee Hangjun
He is an experimental film artist from Seoul, Korea. He collects film footage and does chemical work to oxidize emulsion on film surface. He also does contact printing work by copying film into blank film to make distorted images. His performance are shown  by multiple projection with at least two analog projectors in various places such as galleries and theaters. His latest work <Cracked Share> and <Metaphysics of Sound> will be distributed by Lightcone, an experimental distributor in France. He teaches at workshop in processing lab called Space Cell and he is an editor at <N'avant>, an experimental film magazine. He is publishing a book about Carl E. Brown who is an experimental film artist from Canada, and organizing an exhibition of his works in Korea. (http://www.hangjunlee.com)

Hong Chulki
Since 1996, Hong Chulki from Seoul, Korea has been the founder and the member of the first Korean noise music group Astronoise (with Choi Joonyong). As a noise improviser, he has been playing mainly with feedback, amplifying the audio signal that passes through the audio devices, such as turntable, MD player, and laptop computer, and etc. In 2007, he has released two turntable (without records) solo discs, "5 Modules 2: Surface & Feedback" (Manual, Korea) and "Without Cartridge/With Cartridge" (Balloon and Needle, Korea) He has been active not only as an installation artist concentrated on vibration and feedback but also as an experimental film sound designer/music composer and theoretical worker of noise music and improvisation. (http://www.balloonnneedle.com/chulkien.html)

Quotes from the booklet
Seized in moments of visual detachment during periods of emotional contact, these images are oxidized residues of fixed light and chemical elements of transformed from living organisms.
- Carl E. Brown

I have been waiting for those who create music and visual just like them for more than 20 years.. They confront and challenge the problem at this departing point of audio and video.
- Otomo Yoshihide

Excerpt from "Shared Crack: How to Materialize the Visual-Aural Idea" by Kim Gok
Lee Hangjun, rather than capturing the actions of the object through the camera, has been working on chemical process, transforming film itself physically and chemically; Hong Chulki has been working on feedback playing or collaborative improvisation, without transmitter or receiver, using effect pedals or turntable. So to speak, the two artists have been exploring what the medium signifies, the potentiality of the medium itself distinguished from the representation or the power immanent in the medium. But we must not forget that their collaboration is worth more than just reflective research on the medium, the material itself. When Lee Hangjun was hammering the film strip to break silver grains inside it in "Cracked Share," and Hong Chulki was doubly mixing the sound footage of "Metaphysics of Sound," neither artist aimed to hear or see materials but instead the crack between them. They came close to finding not materials, but the relation between them, so to speak, the principle or power of the materials.

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