The Cacophony of Unbalance explores new communication potential and relationship forming in tandem with the technology era, observing how new things are created in the midst of disparate elements. Unquestionably evolving with the technology era, art has been contemporarily modernizing the subject reading the era and the matter of awareness. The current moment cries out for a new language of thought to describe strange existence emerged with ever-developing technology. In the current era where technology works both as ‘poison’ and ‘medicine’, we should look into how new way of communication and sentimental resonance go together towards human life coexisting with technology. Transcending the boundaries of the modern art concept and conventional genre, the exhibition showcases five groundbreaking works of convergence art embodying the spirit of contemporary art’s pluralism. Each piece stands as a unique entity, a vibrant manifestation of the artist’s imagination interlaced with factors of ‘nature’ and ‘technology’ in heterogeneous and transforming way. These artworks form a tense ensemble, unlocking their potential in unforeseen ways. Whether this confluence translates into a technologically aesthetic value or a meaningless noise hinges on the organic interplay between pieces. Imagining the potential that unexpectedly bursts among heterogeneous elements in the arena, the exhibition invites you to contemplate mode of the technical properties in the works.
Physics describes a ‘metastable state’ as a precarious balance between stability and instability. In this state, even a minor irregularity can trigger a transition in either direction, creating potential energy. The transitional potential underlies as it is neither fully stable nor perfectly balanced and energy exchange arises between two asymmetric extremes. The Cacophony of Unbalance embodies a similar kind of metastability. Transcending dichotomous concepts such as technology and nature, humans and technology, and nature and humans, the artwork implies various relationships in our society, heterogeneous individual, and boundaries generated from them. Therefore, the exhibition creates the irreversible new correlation structure within the tense relation between different works. The exhibition makes discontinuous take off and maintain continuous self-preserving metastability in the tense correlation with full of potential energy for change and generation.
The Cacophony of Unbalance discovers a new relationship between different artworks and explores expansion of relationship’s network. The five works, showcased in the exhibition, deliver the stories of generation and change created from nature, technology, and humans in their individual structure and method. Gijeong Goo translates the real landscapes into 3D-rendered digital images to disturb the existing awareness, creating potential fragile moments where the audience become aware of heterogeneity. Goeun Park restructures tree’s micro movement data into graphics as a metaphor for the invisible material level of a higher realm. SEO Sanghee explores a new aesthetic experience from the boundary between real and virtual plants and its space. So Soo Bin highlights that plants are not physically fixed, but metastablely changeable within the complex relationship between nature, technology, and humanity in the sensory experience where the audience move the real plants and artificial plants at will. Shin Seungjae delves into the audience’s sensory expansion by representing stereophonic sound as a new medium, ‘seed’ as the sound is created physical contact between the plants and the audience. Generation occurred from one point in the exhibition gradually and discontinuously impacts other points in all direction. As a metastably changeable being within the relationship instead of static, the artwork is transformed into one ensemble with other works. This ensemble taps into the inherent potential of the work, pushing boundaries of relationship to the higher level. As the works have their own formation and unique history, they resist stagnation, becoming a catalyst for ongoing change. Therefore, the arena is open to potential change instead of stable balance. The dance between different works reaches a precarious unbalance when their potential for change remains untapped. The momentary affect from dance of the unbalanced energy crosses, stays, and coagulates, creating new difference and change. Internal resonance between the works reminds us of cacophony which creates the gap and space, realizing new potential and awakening sense of the relationship. The whole process becomes a potent reflection of the multilayered and variable society, reminding us of how humans live in complex relationships with unexpected diversity. Society is a place where everything is newly formed every time in reciprocal relationship, unlike a collection of isolated individuals. Everything starts from difference and ends at difference, and all similarity and coidentity is temporary byproducts along this ever-shifting journey.
Technology occurs and evolves according to the unique principle of technological nature and works as a medium to arrange relationship between humans and nature. Technological advancements have gone hand-in-hand with a continual shift in the materials we harvest from nature. This process generated thermal energy, and its speed has gradually accelerated. As the total energy in the universe remains constant according to the energy conservation law, nature has transformed itself in line with the technological development speed. However, its inability to catch up with the acceleration of the technological development causes extreme uncertainty which damages people recently. Humans seek to bridge the gap between technological progress and the pace of natural change by developing environmentally friendly technologies. However, today, the development of new technologies to solve natural environmental problems has created other environmental problems and conflicts of environmental values that has never existed in previous eras. The meaning of the relationship between technological object, humans, and nature continuously expands and progresses with each era. Interaction between technology and nature, created and evolving in distinct rhythm and speed, fosters new mode for human connection with the world, and unlocks the potential possibility to connect them in a way of different level, leading to the way of communication and sentimental resonance. The exhibition is composed of artworks that have their own individuality and unity with both technology and nature elements. Each piece highlights the boundary of gap between two different elements, technology and nature in its own unique way. A boundary is a dividing line, a surface of encounter, even a space of gap or crack. In a society shaped by hybridity and diverse sociocultural structures, the artworks prompt us to explore the space that exists between different relationships treating the boundary as gap and crack.
How can we perceive the current era within a newly established form of life in the event of achieving limitless technological advancement?