Silent Battle
Curator
Form: Workshop & Performance
Date: March 8, 2025
Venue: Gonggan Seoro, Seoul, S.Korea
Participants: Sunmi Yong, Hyeree Ro, Hong Seung-Hye
Text: Sunmi Yong
Photo & Video Documentation: Swan Park
Graphic design: Eunji Kim
Organized and produced by apparat/us (Jinyoung Shin & Yesolbi Kim)
Supported by Arts Council Korea
Sunmi Yong “There is an object, and there is movement. Whoosh. Objects, and then comes the music, accompanied by movements. Squeak. Objects interact, and movements overlap. Break and build. Swish swish. As if there are no objects, and as if there are no movements. Softly. Silently. The objects reappear, and the movements pause. Thump. Swoosh. All objects and all movements in place. Buzz. Now, everything that exists moves. No halts- the Battle. Hubbub. Smack. Bang.”
Silent Battle, a performance repertoire and interactive workshop, invites the audience into a scene of continuous frictions created by Hyeree Ro and Hong Seung-Hye. This space shares the accumulation of relationships built over the years between the artists and initiator, Sunmi Yong, encouraging the audience to interact and engage with the scenes presented.
Hyeree Ro “I’m interested in the connection between objects and bodies in the world. I approach it as witnessing the movement that comes from life. It’s a performance in a situation where theatricality, such as acting or directly reenacting the scene, is excluded—to be precisely ambiguous.”
Hong Seung-Hye “Movement is the most important condition that makes an object an organism. I’ve been trying to create sculptures and give them movement. Time and rhythm are involved. The stage is a small universe; moving in space and time is proof of being alive.”