YEONGBIN LEE

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The recorded time is conserved. They can be heard again and again, they even have hearing. In this way, it becomes an indirect experience enriched by a collective dimension unknown to the participant. By excluding the visual component, the experience is anonymized. Thus the reproduction of the anonymous sounds becomes a potential synonym for one's own experiences. Recognizing sound is an act of imagination. It creates spaces of creativity.

Exhibition view: Muthesius Prize, Video Sound Installation, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, 2016

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Acoustics not only provides us with important information and knowledge, it also regulates affective behavior. I like to take time, space and emotion by means of sound. This project resulted in my project "12312355-05000101". Every year (since 2013) between New Year’s Eve and New Year, I gather the "Time of the Others". During this gathering, each year, several different friends and also unknown people help me. Between 23:55 and 00:05 they record their personal moment of the year change with the recording device or the mobile phone. The recorded time is conserved. They can be heard again and again, they even have hearing. In this way, it becomes an indirect experience enriched by a collective dimension unknown to the participant. By excluding the visual component, the experience is anonymized. Thus the reproduction of the anonymous sounds becomes a potential synonym for one's own experiences. Recognizing sound is an act of imagination. It creates spaces of creativity.

Exhibition view: Muthesius Prize, Video Sound Installation, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, 2016