The Low Place — Minji Kim(Unknown Kim)

Title: The Low Place
Place: Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea
Date: 12/4/2025 - 1/6/2025
Format: Exhibiton and performance

In early 2025, Minji Kim undertook an artist residency at Mediamatic in Amsterdam, focusing on the hidden vibrational worlds beneath the Oosterdok waters. Her research project, Aquatic Soundscapes, explored hydro infrasound, low-frequency vibrations inaudible to humans yet essential to many marine species for communication and survival.

The residency culminated in the exhibition Aquatic Soundscapes (1 March to 1 April 2025), where visitors encountered site-specific installations combining underwater recordings, spectrograms, and vibrational playback systems. The exhibition opened an imaginative space for questioning the human impact on underwater sonic environments shaped by shipping, turbines, and cleansing infrastructures around the Oosterdok.

Alongside the exhibition, Kim hosted a listening workshop, guiding participants through field recording techniques and situated listening practices. Participants explored both the ecological soundscape of the site and its layered socio-political contexts, reflecting on how listening can shift perception and open forms of accountability toward more-than-human worlds.

Through Aquatic Soundscapes, Minji Kim extended her broader research on Low Listening, an artistic and ecological engagement with infrasound in coastal environments, following earlier work in Sihwa (South Korea) and connecting it to Amsterdam’s waterfront.