ABOUT EXHIBITION
As the first d'strict Art Project, reSOUND presents a captivating multi-sensory exhibition at Culture Station Seoul 284 from June 21st to August 25th, 2024. Occupying the historic venue of the former Seoul Station, this exhibition features eight site-specific immersive artworks by acclaimed Korean and international artists and collectives. Their works have been exhibited worldwide and comprise large-scale immersive installations, 4DSOUND, kinetic sound, audience-driven live performance, interactive art, and ASMR. The artworks, carefully curated and resonating across the Station, invite participants to navigate both familiar and unfamiliar realms and themes, promising to interweave multiple senses and transport the public to new dimensions of sensory experience.
reSOUND transforms in the central hall of Culture Station Seoul 284 with d’strict’s meticulous immersive high-resolution installation OCEAN (2022/2024). In the 3rd class waiting room, Berlin-based experimental spatial sound studio, MONOM premieres Imagined Worlds (2024), an unknown world uninhabited by humans, and devoid of visual elements, where participants explore a omnidirectional 4DSOUND space for an unprecedented auditory experience. As participants continue their journey through the 1st and 2nd class waiting rooms, they encounter Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Catharsis (2019), a virtual world depicting the beauty of old-growth California redwood forests, untainted by human hands, impossible to experience without the simulation of accelerated time and space of the artwork. In the women’s waiting room, ECHO (2024), a kinetic sound piece crafted from black hole data observed at the International Space Station, reverberates with the vastness and wonder of the Cosmos. This groundbreaking collaboration involves d'strict, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), oOps.50656, and KKOL Studio.
In the more intimate spaces of Culture Station Seoul 284, participants encounter works blending the recognizable with the unexpected. Filip Studios from the Netherlands presents Tactile Orchestra (2018) in the spare room for VIPs, offering a unique multi-user interactive installation. The work consists of a soft, furry surface that responds to touch - an interactive installation that participants can stroke and caress to discover a variety of orchestral sounds, as well as collaborate to create a symphony in a one-of-a-kind communal creative experience. Meanwhile SOSO from Boston transforms the stationmaster’s office with the Seated Catalog of Feelings (2018). This is a multi-sensory installation in which participants, seated in chairs inspired by those found in American libraries, experience text projected onto the floor with their entire bodies while wearing headphones.
Concurrently, Floating Mind (2024) in the VIP Lounge is a collaborative work between Miniyu, Korea's first ASMR creator, and the textile artist In Young Hye. Their collaboration offers participants the opportunity for private interactions, inviting them to pause, reflect, and reconnect with their inner selves amidst the hustle and bustle of contemporary life through delicate soft sculptures and tranquil lo-fi ASMR sounds. Moving up to the second floor, participants encounter FLOW (2024), a mega art performance originally premiered by d'strict at Outernet in London earlier this year. Here, it is recreated in the theater space of Korea’s first Western-style restaurant, ‘The Grill’. The exhibition also offers a diverse range of programs tailored to enrich participants’ experience, such as artist talks, digital yoga sessions, perfume-making classes, and live music performances by Korean electronic musicians Kirara and CIFIKA. Mexico-based Melissa Santamaria delivers an additional layer of rhythm and echoing sounds to represent reSOUND to the audience.
With reSOUND, d'strict reimagines Culture Station Seoul 284 as a new art platform. It is the inaugural stride in d’strict’s audacious initiative to bring together diverse and innovative creators, converging through digital media, immersive spaces, and vibrant programming. reSOUND endeavors to offer participants profound encounters with art that resonate on multiple levels.