September 30, 2025 at 7 pm

e-flux

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To celebrate the launch of e-flux journal #156, a special issue dedicated to the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, we are very pleased to present a sound performance by sonic and visual artist Jung Hee Choi, on the evening of Tuesday, September 30, at e-flux.

e-flux journal #156 comprises the texts commissioned for the exhibition catalogue for Séance: Technology of the Spirit. The exhibition maps contemporary artistic practices and discourses that draw on occult, mystical, and spiritual traditions and proposes that there exist multiple coexistent worlds—not all of which are legible to reason. Music and experimental sound practices have always been a means of accessing these other worlds while attempting to understand our own.

It is within this context that Jung Hee Choi, an artist whose work is included in the Biennale, will present her video piece RICE (1999) in conjunction with a live solo performance of Composition in the Style of La Monte Young’s 1960 Sustained Friction Sounds (2000/2024). In this work, Choi simultaneously celebrates her own discipleship while carrying forward Young’s teachings in her own voice.

About Choi’s live performance, La Monte Young has written: “In the guru-disciple relationship it is said that the soul of the guru can be passed on to the disciple. With the passing of the soul to the disciple, the ephemeral essence of the soul is passed on through the transmission of knowledge, both directly and indirectly. By this process, eternity is attained through the transmission of knowledge, tradition and beauty from generation to generation. Thus, through the guru-shishya (disciple) parampara (succession), an eternal stream of pure knowledge with a life and tradition of its own can continue into time and beyond.”

View full e-flux Press Release here