Artists: Forms of the Shadow – Young In Hong in conversation with Bettina Spörr

Young In Hong is working across installation, sound, performance, textile and drawing. Her practice often focuses on undervalued cultural practices and seeks for a sense of equality that gently undermines ruling hierarchies. In recent years, Hong has increasingly examined notions of inter-species communication, symbolism and the hybridity of sound, movement and objects in the context of other-than-human voices. More

Young In Hong is one of 18 artists and artist groups featured in Forms of the Shadow, and one of four artists whose works are shown at the Secession and its partner, the Korean Cultural Centre in Vienna. In this episode, recorded on September 20, 2024, the artist discusses her installation Double Encounter (2009), on view at the Secession, as well as her new work White Cranes and Snowfall (2024), presented at the Korean Cultural Centre.

Further conversations with Jane Jin Kaisen, Joon Kim, Lee Kit, Minouk Lim, Adrián Villar Rojas, Ramiro Wong, Tomoko Yoneda, Jin-me Yoon, and Min Yoon were conducted and will be released in the coming weeks during the exhibition:

Forms of the Shadow

Curated by Sunjung Kim

20.9. – 17.11.2024

With Nilbar Güreş; Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian; Kyungah Ham; Young In Hong; ikkibawiKrrr; Jane Jin Kaisen; Joon Kim; Lee Bul; Lee Kit; Mikael Levin; Minouk Lim; Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho; Adrián Villar Rojas; Ramiro Wong; Haegue Yang; Tomoko Yoneda; Jin-me Yoon; Min Yoon

 

Bettina Spörr is an in-house curator at the Secession, where she played a key role in bringing the exhibition Forms of the Shadow to fruition.

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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard

Programmed by the board of the Secession

Audio Editor: Paul Macheck

Executive Producer: Bettina Spörr