ZER01NE – Mimi Jeong

ZER01NE | Installations | 2020
Seoul, South Korea

Tremolog – One Body Concert

2020, single channel video, color, sound, mixed media, 9 min 24 sec

Artistic Direction, Choreography, Performance: Mimi Jeong
Concept, Movement, Music, Interaction: Mimi Jeong, Robert Torche, Julien Brun
Video: Hana Vojackova

Choreographer and dancer Mimi Jeong puts forth a way of communication that transcends the limitations of online-based communication with voices and screen in the current situation where non-face-to-face communication has become a norm.
Tremolog – One Body Concert, an experiential video piece, maximizes a body language and attempts a new way of communication with individuals in isolation. Tremolog is the amalgamation of tremor and logue, meaning a story. Mimi Jeong starts from the perspective that all the sounds from a body can be traced back to movement and conducts a minute analysis of a body using ‘vibrations’ as if dissecting a body to identify the source and the cause of movement that makes a body complete.
A performer‘s utterance is reinterpreted into the movement with her body and delivered to the audience with the electronic sounds and vibrations derived from a technological system. This project creates a new way of communication by taking a non-linguistic approach using a technology that expands human senses to allow the audience to explore how languages and sounds are transformed and perceived by others. This also serves as an alternative to a situation where live performances are not available anymore due to COVID-19 and implies that a new relationship can be set to overcome the physical distance between the artist living overseas and the audience based in Korea.

사이에 (/sa:iːe/) – Between, Among, Through

2020, PDLC, glass, electronics, single channel video, color, sound, dimension variable

Collaboration: Mimi Jeong, Changyeob Ok, Jinjoo Cho, Julien Brun
Installation Design: Changyeob Ok
Choreography and Dance: Mimi Jeong
Violin: Jinjoo Cho
Video editing: Changyeob Ok, Julien Brun, Mimi Jeong
Video recording Montreal: Samuel Olaechea
Sound recording Montreal: Joël Lavoie

Parts of the Video are excerpts from the original footage of “Duo” by Hana Vojackova.

Participating from South Korea, Canada and Switzerland, choreographer and contemporary dancer Mimi Jeong, visual artist Changyeob Ok, violinist Jinjoo Cho, and stage director Julien Brun began /sa:iːe/ – Between, Among, Through with the question, with the question ‘What are the limits of presence?’ Each participant recorded and conducted virtual experimentations from different places and at different times. Through their methods, the team presents virtual movements as a new pathway that connects various phenomena between the individual and the society with forms of performances. Alfred Schnittke’s A Paganini is loosely based on the original by the 18th-century violinist Niccolo Paganini. Taking apart Paganini’s composition and rearranging the fragments into a collage, A Paganini becomes the connective tissue between the two artists within the spatiotemporality of the ‘here’ and ‘now.’ As Schnittke interrupts the smooth flow of the original with the cacophonic introduction of a violin, the project opens the possibility of new performances by bringing together different hybrid media.
From the screen and lighting to the sound and the performers, elements of the project function as devices expanding the understanding of presence. Bringing together synesthetic memory, and visual matter and its projection, along with the limitations of physical locations, remote performances challenge the vitality and liveness to present new limits of presence.