More (T)here

More Here (a.k.a. More Than Here) is an interactive media and performing art installation took place at Musée des beaux arts de Montréal as part of AmérAsia Film Festival in 2014. This was the previous research-creation project of “The Body That Hums, Ungnyeo‘s Cave” which is expanded its horizon combining with the entirety of the multidisciplinary arts installation taking place in an outdoor landscape.

“I wanted to capture an experience that folds a memory of liminality and liquidity. To experiment it, I shot different landscapes at three different times of the day; at dawn, at midday, and at dusk. Using split screens, the two or many-planes unfold simultaneously. It reminds me of the experience of Woolf’s a twilight and flickery time”

Formerly, this multimedia art installation was called “More Than Here,” now it is simply entitled “More (T)here.” The installation is designed to intensify an affective body’s sensation as it passes into a coincidentally unconscious and conscious recursive experience of time and space. The multiple forms of media are assembled with the live performance of music and physical walking on the stage: the moving image occupies a split screen, which becomes a form of given environment. The affective mode of this technique produces a video art of the everyday: screened at different times of the day on the three split screens, becoming the background of the environment. The public is invited to walk on the stage and interact with each other, under the given conditions of the space, facilitating a neighbourly relation between strangers. In this way, the public turns into the foreground of the installation. The environment slides into the background, as the visible and tactile experience of other bodies rises to the foreground. Everyone becomes a stranger to one and another, and an ephemeral awkwardness arises in the actuality of the installation space.

The 15 minutes length of the original video was made as the background image for the foreground live performance. About the 5 minutes length shortened version is made as a moving image video with no performance.

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