In the Room

Sung Hwan Kim

• The New Museum
• 235 Bowery
• Sunday, November 15 - Thursday, November 19, times vary

The performance at the New Museum is a variation of Sung Hwan Kim’s “In the room 3 (dog I knew)” with new sets and props. The performance opens with an excerpt from Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry and proceeds in a roundabout way to tell a story about being inside the very shape of this circuitous path.

Sung Hwan Kim’s “In the room” series is told through text, film/video, and music (in collaboration with dogr, a.k.a David Michael DiGregorio). The music itself is made with layered voice, ocarina, delay, a sampling keyboard, harmonica, kazoo, pump organ, guitar, mallets, stretched membranous materials, jae-gum (Korean cymbals), and pang-eul (Korean bells). Thickly layered vocal harmonies interweave themselves with other parts of the narrative; a vocalist might turn into a character in the storytelling process, just as the story might turn into music.

Sung Hwan Kim grew up in Korea and is currently based in New York. Previously, he lived and worked in the Netherlands for four years, during which time he served as a fellow at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. In the Netherlands and Korea, he developed the “In the room” series—which comprises film, video, concert, drawing, and writing—in both private and public spaces. The series explores how one form of storytelling can be transformed into another by juxtaposing the different languages of cultures, genres, genders, and generations.

This production is commissioned by Hyunjin Kim, and supported by Arts Council Korea (ARKO) and Korean Cultural Service, New York.

Two performances: Sunday, Nov. 15, 3pm + Thursday, Nov. 19, 7pm

**Please note: there is a strict seating policy for this performance. Latecomers will not be admitted under any circumstances. The duration of the performance is sixty minutes. There will be no intermission.

Tickets: $12 / $10 Performa and New Museum Members at www.newmuseum.org.