Beginning of Random Access Project 3.0, Jaei Hyuk Ra presents A Few Inches from Me(August 15-September 10), a sound installation in the museum shop and cafeteria. This exhibition consists of an accidental encounter between the audience and the sound, who did not expect to run into the work in everyday space. If you’re not paying attention, you may not hear the sound the artist designed. This is because the sound exists along with the ambient noise and changes when the noise level exceeds a certain level. The concept of ‘masking’, which expands the perception of sound with noise, is based on the principle of revealing the other side through hiding. Using this making effect as a material for composing, Jaei Hyuk Ra makes experiments at the boundary between music and everyday life, and explores various possibilities of interaction that can occur between the composer designing the performance of the sound and the audience actually appreciating it.

Artist

Jaei Hyuk Ra working in Dresden, Germany has presented a series of Gap dealing with communication to reduce the gap of appreciation between the composer and the audience since 2016. In addition, there are compositions such as Deaf(2018) and Three Shell Game(2019/2020) series based on the study of the masking effect. Other major works include Views: 3,144,―,―(2018), Jéte(2021), and Given Away(2022).

Random Access Project 3.0

The name Random Access originates from a work of the same name presented by Nam June Paik in his first solo exhibition, Exposition of Music—Electronic Television (1963). Random Access involves taking a magnetic audio tape out of its casing and attaching it randomly to a wall, allowing visitors to scrape the tape with a magnetic playback head to create sounds. Through Random Access project, Nam June Paik Art Center has been presenting exhibitions that reinterpret Nam June Paik’s works and thoughts from 2010 to 2020 through the perspectives of contemporary artists, focusing on improvisation, indeterminacy, interaction, and participation. Nam June Paik Art Center continues Random Access Project 3.0, aiming to create a space where Paik’s experimental spirit meets contemporary art in various ways. The utilization of the art museum proposed by the young artists will become an opportunity where new names for exhibitions are discovered.