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짧은 설장구 Brief Version of Seoljanggu - 0, I, II (2021-)
Performance
- Date: 11, 16, 18 August 2024
- Time: 15:00 (11 August) / 20:00 (16 August) / 16:00 (18 August)
- Venue:
극장 PLOT (11 August)
Theatre PLOT, Yeonsae-ro 4-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul
토끼굴 (16, 18 August)
Rabbit Tunnel, 74-12 Sinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul - Performer: Kelvin King Fung Ng
About the piece
The audience is advised to read this description after experiencing the musical work.
Seoljanggu refers to a music-dance in a Korean harvest rite that has now evolved to a stage performance.
This piece radicalises and explores some intersubjective aspects of concert spectatorship. An invisible theatre of an under-par performance disguises an underlying layer of work, of which spectators gradually become aware individually. Events like mistakes and warm-up falling outside conventional musical schema contribute to this concealed dramaturgy. Fleeting (un)certainty and incongruence between the two layers create high tension and heightens spectator's awareness of self’s and others' perspectives and the social situation.