Jung Hee Choi

Jung Hee Choi
Born Jung Hee Choi
South Korea
Education B.A. Individualized Major: Art/Film/Music
M.A. Individualized Major:
Sound Art
Alma mater New York University
Known for video, performance, sound, multimedia installation
Website jungheechoi.com

Musical career

Instruments Voice
Associated acts Just Alap Raga Ensemble

Jung Hee Choi is a Korean-born artist and musician, based in New York City, working in video, performance, sound and multi-media installation. Since 1999, Choi has been a disciple of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela in the study of music and art. Choi, with Young and Zazeela, is a founding member of The Just Alap Raga Ensemble, and has performed as vocalist with the ensemble since 2002.[1] Choi's work has been presented in the U.S., Europe and Asia, including FRAC Franche-Comté, France; Berliner Festspiele, Germany; Dia Art Foundation, Guggenheim Museum and MELA Foundation Dream Houses, NYC; FRESH Festival, Bangkok; and the Korea Experimental Arts Festival, Korea.[2][3][4][5]

Work

Choi has presented series of environmental compositions with video, evolving light-point patterns, drawing, incense, performance and sound involving the concept of “Manifest, Unmanifest”. She describes the work as a “synthesis of expression" that "collectively creates an intersubjective space as a unified continuum and emphasizes the totality of sense perceptions as a single unit to create a state of immersion.”[3]

The New York Times described her environmental composition, Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest IX at Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House, as a work wherein,

A movie-screen-size black surface is perforated by tiny holes through which bright light passes, creating a roughly symmetrical, Rorschach-like image resembling swirling galactic gas. This is overlaid by slowly changing, soft-focused shapes in colors from toasty brown to luminous blues that mask and reshape parts of the basic starry image. … ‘Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Sine Wave Version...’ With extended listening, what at first seemed mechanically repetitious turns out to be a complex interweaving of different, slowly oscillating pitches. If you give in to it while watching Ms. Choi’s hallucinatory screen, you may find yourself in an altered state of consciousness, on the verge of some ineffable, transcendental revelation.
— Ken Johnson, "Review: 'Dream House' at Dia:Chelsea, a Hallucinatory Show"[6]

Selected Exhibitions and Performances

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Exhibition Curator and Co-curator

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Honors, Grants, and Commissions

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Collections

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Instructor and Lecturer

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2008–present

References

  1. ↑ Nicole V. Gagne (2012). "Young, La Monte". Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music. United Kingdom: Scarerow Press, Inc. p. 303
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Young, L., Zazeela, M., & Choi, J. (2015). "The Just Alap Raga Ensemble, Pandit Pran Nath 97th Birthday Memorial Tribute, Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari". MELA Foundation, New York.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Bio" from Jung Hee Choi's website
  4. 1 2 3 "Press Release" from Dia Art Foundation website
  5. 1 2 3 "Press Release" from Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum website
  6. ↑ Johnson, Ken (2015-8-26)."Review: 'Dream House' at Dia:Chelsea, a Hallucinatory Show". The New York Times (New York). Retrieved 2016-3-11.
  7. ↑ "Event Page" from Dia Art Foundation website
  8. ↑ Young, L., Zazeela, M., & Choi, J. (2015). "The Just Alap Raga Ensemble, Pandit Pran Nath 19th Anniversary Memorial Tribute, Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari". MELA Foundation, New York.
  9. ↑ Young, L., Zazeela, M., & Choi, J. (2014). "The Just Alap Raga Ensemble, Pandit Pran Nath 96th Birthday Memorial Tribute, Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari". MELA Foundation, New York.
  10. ↑ "Project Page" from New Music USA wedsite
  11. 1 2 "Announcement" from Art Agenda website
  12. ↑ Young, L., Zazeela, M., & Choi, J. (2014). "The Just Alap Raga Ensemble, Pandit Pran Nath 18th Anniversary Memorial Tribute, Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari". MELA Foundation, New York.
  13. ↑ "Press Release" from MELA Foundation website
  14. ↑ Young, L., Zazeela, M., & Choi, J. (2013). "The Just Alap Raga Ensemble, Pandit Pran Nath 17th Anniversary Memorial Tribute, Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari". MELA Foundation, New York.
  15. 1 2 "Fiche de L'oeuvre" from Frac Franche-Comté website
  16. ↑ Young, L., Zazeela, M., & Choi, J. (2012). "The Just Alap Raga Ensemble, Pandit Pran Nath 94th Birthday Memorial Tribute, Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari". MELA Foundation, New York.
  17. ↑ Young, L., Zazeela, M., & Choi, J. (2012). "The Just Alap Raga Ensemble, Pandit Pran Nath 16th Anniversary Memorial Tribute, Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari". MELA Foundation, New York.
  18. ↑ "Press Release" from Paris-Art.com
  19. ↑ "Exhibition Brochure" from Korean Cultural Service
  20. ↑ "Exhibition Page" from Korean Cultural Center New York website
  21. ↑ Grimshaw, Jeremy. 2009. "La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, and the Just Alap Raga Ensemble Annex Gallery 4, Guggenheim Museum, New York City March 14 and 21, 2009". American Music 27 (4). University of Illinois Press: 521–25.
  22. 1 2 3 4 5 "CV" from Jung Hee Choi's website
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