2024
Situated Listening Modes in an Ecological place
Song of Old Ones
An Ethnography of Chasing the Wind
Soundwalk: A Short Story of the Wind
Land, Ghost and the Rumors(2024)
Into the (re)wild(Essay)
2023
Anthropocene Sonnet
Land, Ghost and the Rumors(2023)
Re-shaping t/dunes(2023)
2022
My Neighbor K; The Peculiar Garden
Moving Air
Re-shaping t/dunes(2022)
Acoustic Territories(Fragile Lines)
2021
Inscription
Listening Performance: Flashback session / The other’s sonic experience; Bus22
2020
Aural Tectonics / Feedback Devices
2018
Fall in/out
Place: Sonic Acts: The Lives of Deltas x Overexposed
Date: 12/10/2023-15/10/2023
Format: Research
- Essay: Link to the website
In July 2023, over the course of one month, I conducted field research in the Sihwa watershed. I sought to addresses the question posited by the Sonic Acts’ residency The Lives of Deltas: How can ecological approaches to pollution and pollination re-frame interspecies networks in the contemporary urban delta?.1 Embarking on a feld study, I delved into the observed ecological, geographical, and sociological layers, encompassing a critique of post-ecological urbanisation and capitalist development, alongside the notion of rewilding. This corresponding text, which narrates my findings, experiences and encounters along the lake shore, unfolds as a chronological analysis spanning more than 30 years. Following the timeline of the Sihwa reclamation project, I seek to shed light on the intricate histories of various species, including humans, while also highlighting the potential environmental resurgence that might be rekindled.
- Podcast: Link to the website
In this episode of the Overexposed Podcast made by Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee radio, Andrea Gonzalez interviews Minji Kim, about the interplay between human life and the environment, the sonic qualities of wind and the use of auditory technologies in tracing diverse forms of decay. Minji Kim, also known as Unknown Kim, is a researcher and sound artist based in The Hague and Seoul. She is a founder of the eco-acoustic sound artist initiative Acoustic Territories. Her practice investigates the relationship between human-designed infrastructure and coastal spaces, asking how sound and music might contribute to a better ecological environment. Asking how ecological approaches to pollution can re-frame interspecies networks in the contemporary urban delta, Minji Kim's project for OVEREXPOSED x Lives of Deltas residency programme takes inspiration from the Zand Motor, an experimental anti-erosion pump-dredging system built on the southern coast of The Netherlands. Following her participation in the programme, Kim developed a site-specific instrument in response to the system's mechanisms, creating a medium that can reveal the acoustic quality of these coastal infrastructures in real-time.
Sonic Acts and the Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges (UGlobe) invite you to apply for The Lives of Deltas x Overexposed residency programme on the theme of Pollution/Pollination. Taking place from 20 April to 20 May 2023, this fully-funded residency is a unique opportunity for Netherlands-based artists to expand their practice, develop new creative methodologies, and work on artistic assignments with a small group of MA students.
At the delta, the power of industrialisation, digitalisation, food precarity, sea level rise, volatile weather conditions and other consequences of global warming, can be felt like nowhere else. Formed by an array of powers (geological, meteorological, humanistic), these ‘critical zones’ – as Bruno Latour would call them – reveal differences, but also unexpected similarities. The artist-in-residence will respond to the key question underlying The Lives of Deltas programme, asking: how can ecological approaches to pollution and pollination re-frame interspecies networks in the contemporary urban delta?