Sonicwear
2013-
Sonicwear – Gold Conical Hands
2022
Powder-coated stainless steel frames, powder-coated mesh, PVD-coated stainless steel bells, split rings
2 parts, each 25 x 29 x 29 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Photo: Rita Nazareno and Yasushi Ichikawa
Sonicwear – Sonic Black Fishnet Stockings #1
2018
Fishnet stockings, brass plated bells, nylon thread
60 x 25 x 1 cm
Courtesy of artist and Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
Photo: Studio Haegue Yang
Sonicwear – Quasi-Pagan X
2017
Synthethic leather, synthethic fur, bias tape, thread, cowbells, metal rings
180 x 80 cm, 7 kg
Courtesy of the artist
Photo: Studio Haegue Yang
Sonicwear – Jester Tail Poncho
2017
Nickel plated bells, metal rings
130 x 150 cm, 14.6 kg
Courtesy of the artist
Photo: Studio Haegue Yang
Sonicwear – Vest, Copper and Nickel Plated #1
2015
Copper plated bells, nickel plated bells, metal rings
168 x 30 cm, 2.4 kg
Courtesy of the artist
Photo: Studio Haegue Yang
Sori Choi, Nana Formosa, Moitié, An Improvisation with Sonicwear, 2016
Attraction!, National Gugak Center, Seoul, South Korea, 2016
Video © National Gugak Center, Seoul
Sonicwear – Poncho, Nickel Plated
2013
Nickel plated bells, rings
82 x 60 cm
Courtesy of Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Photo: Studio Haegue Yang
Sonicwear – Scarf with Mitten Ends, Brass Plated
2013
Brass plated bells, rings, rubber cord
12 x 261 cm
Courtesy of the Artist
Photo: Studio Haegue Yang
Sonicwear – Anklets, Nickel Plated #1
2013
Nickel plated bells, metal rings, elastic cord
2 parts, each 14 x 13 x 13 cm, 0.75 kg
Courtesy of Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Photo: Studio Haegue Yang
Installation view of Family of Equivocations, Aubette 1928 and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, France, 2013
Photo: Mathieu Bertola, Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg
Sonicwear, a series of wearable sculptures made from bells, takes inspiration from the space in which the works were first displayed. Namely at Aubette 1928, a site of architectural heritage redesigned between 1926-8 by Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) and two other artists.They did not insist on adhering to any particular genre but instead developed a variety of practices that span dance, sculpture, painting, craft, architecture, and education. Yang’s interests lies in the variety of cultural energies that motivated groups such as the avant-garde, Dada, De Stijl, and Monte Verità commune and in their artists’ attitudes as social engineers. In a similar sense, the Sonicwears series presents a set of sculptures that reflect different subjects, including physical perception, the materiality of sculpture and the plurality of culture. These objects―connected like sets of bracelets or anklets or in the shape of mittens―can tie together one’s extremities or connect two people by the arm; the bound body parts produce sound as they move separately or in unison. Thus through the connection between the body and the senses another pair of perceptual concepts―movement and resonance―emerges.
Exhibition history
Drum Listens to Heart, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA, 2023
Okayama Art Summit: Do We Dream Under the Same Sky, 2022
ETA 1994-2018, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, 2018
Shooting the Elephant 象 Thinking the Elephant, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2015
Family of Equivocations, Museé du Strasbourg and l’Aubette, Strasbourg, France, 2013
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