Installation view of 《Untuned Time: Camille Norment, Min Oh》 © Arts Council Korea
ARKO Art Center is presenting 《Untuned Time》, a two-person exhibition
featuring seven works from Min Oh’s video installation series ‘Simultaneity’
alongside the first museum presentation in Korea of works by Camille Norment,
on view through July 19.
The exhibition was conceived by inviting
Camille Norment, an international artist whose practice resonates with the
artistic world of Min Oh, who was selected for the ARKO Multidisciplinary Arts
Support Program. Min Oh presents, for the first time in one place, the
‘Simultaneity’ series that she has researched and developed over many years.
In addition, Camille Norment — who
represented the Norwegian Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale and received the
2023 Nam June Paik Award (Kunststiftung NRW) — unveils Plexus
(rhizome) Seoul, a large-scale sound installation commissioned and
supported by ARKO Art Center and produced on site for the exhibition. This
marks the first presentation of Norment’s work in Korea.
Installation view of 《Untuned Time: Camille Norment, Min Oh》 © Arts Council Korea
Both artists take “noise” — understood as
dissonance and interference — as a central driving force within their
practices. Rather than presenting smooth and predictable forms of order, the
exhibition introduces cracks into existing systems and hierarchies through
sound, waves, friction, and vibration, proposing these disruptions as points of
departure for new relationships.
The first gallery presents Min Oh’s
time-based installation series ‘Simultaneity.’ Inspired by Claude Shannon’s
idea that “there is more information in chaos,” the series constructs complex
networks of information in which heterogeneous entities overlap in
non-hierarchical ways.
Visitors are invited to experience the
artist’s practice as a total environment that traverses live performance, film,
interviews, lectures, and publishing.
Installation view of 《Untuned Time: Camille Norment, Min Oh》 © Arts Council Korea
The second gallery unveils Camille
Norment’s new work Plexus (rhizome) Seoul. Created on site
for the exhibition, the large-scale wooden installation extends throughout the
gallery like roots or a neural network, filling the space with vibrations of
sound and voice.
For this project, Norment measured the
frequencies of ARKO Art Center and incorporated them into the composition,
while collaborating with a diverse group of Seoul-based artists — including
traditional art song vocalists, indie singers, choreographers, actors, and
visual artists — to create a new constellation of voices.
