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The Reciting Machine — unfoldX 2026
Selected for unfoldX 2026, the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture's convergence art programme for space-based work. The Reciting Machine (읊는 기계) opens at Culture Station Seoul 284 and runs from 26 November to 9 December 2026.
Three agents share a single synthesiser, with no orchestrator between them. They negotiate, override one another and concede, and the sound that arrives belongs to none of them. The material is a state-produced audio archive in which two thirds of the recorded hours turn out to be narration — the state reciting. The machine does not play those recordings back. It stitches fragments into new utterances while the exhibition is running, the way an oral poet assembles a song from ready-made blocks rather than reproducing a memorised text.
TRANS III — Sound Objects
Documentation of sound objects used in TRANS III, exploring the materiality and spatial presence of sound through physical objects.
This installation is constructed from a single piano wire bent into a loop, with both ends attached to a DC motor. As the motor spins, the wire loop periodically strikes the "barn door" of a theatrical lighting fixture, producing a sharp, percussive sound. This work aims for an auditory visualization of flickering, creating a flicker-like afterimage in the perception of the viewer through the combination of sound and visual blur.
This installation consists of two cut piano wires of different lengths attached to the axis of a DC motor. As the motor rotates, the piano wires periodically 'strike' the stage railing, creating a crisp "tick-tock" sound, reminiscent of a clock's second hand. This percussive object visualizes mechanical rhythm, repetition, and the passage of time through sound.
This installation uses the rotational movement of a DC motor, which is amplified by a pendulum and wire. The movement is transmitted to the theater's railing structure via a Super Clamp. The resulting vibrations travel along the railing and spread throughout the entire space, creating a palpable "texture of trembling" and transforming the performance hall into a single, giant resonant instrument.