Every moment, we make interpretations of various motions and translate (or mistranslate) meaning of the words. Here is one possible reason: ’VELOCITY’. People fear velocity when it’s fast, get bored when it’s at a normal status, and are complacent when it’s slow—we are going to express three different possibilities of ’velocity’ with our movements. In this work, while nice ajaeng (a seven-stringed instrument used in Korean traditional court music) is in tune, Modern Table shows a ’dynamic curve’ in its movements, which is the distinctive feature of it. Those movements are a music of body created from contacts and interactions with the air. They are very rhythmical, and the dynamics caused by the variation of this rhythm to give the audiences some intuition of velocity. The connection among those movements are intriguing and self-inclusive. You may expect much on this work which is decisively going against the stream.
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