SooA Kim
Projection Designer — MULTIPLE PERSONALITY
SooA Kim is a multimedia artist, working primarily with the mediums of sound, performance and video installation. Her work has been selected for eminent exhibitions and screenings across the globe including at Industry City, Hecksher Museum of Art, Pier Sixty, Abrons Art Center, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, The Kaye Playhouse, Mannes School of Music, Yamaha Service Center in New York; Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh; Hermitage Museum of Art in St. Petersburg, Russia; RomaNeum Concert Hall, Düsseldorf Festival in Germany; Toronto Centre for the Arts in Canada; and Heritage Space in Hanoi, Vietnam. Kim’s current works examine socially constructed ideas within the sphere of performing arts, creating interdisciplinary work that brings together contemporary fine arts, music and experimental theatre.
SooA is originally from South Korea is currently completing her MFA in Video and Media Design at Carnegie Mellon University, and is based in New York City and Pittsburgh.
MULTIPLE PERSONALITY was directed by Sebastian Lambertz for Johanneskirche Dusseldorf, in October 2016.
The project was established as a new model for an ensemble to incorporate sound, technology, and design. The purpose was to present classical music in a new and engaging ways of staging. My team and I discussed about how to portray classical music and give better communication of how these music pieces were composed with underlying contexts and distinctive reasons. We decided to transform this conservatory performance of classical music into a theatrical performance using media design and sound technology. The idea behind our “Multiple Personality” project is to show the phenomenon of multiple aspects of three different composers with different perspectives and contexts in their music. We picked three music pieces that engaged with the theme that daily impacts our society: Carl Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto focuses on mental health, Steve Reich presents emerging technology, and Scaramouche presents variety of professions that we carry in our lives. h
