Longing Energies, 2023-2025

Works in this series


Longing Energies series is an artistic research project that explores memory, ritual, and ecological transformation through sound, storytelling, and embodied practices. The project moves across an audiovisual work and performance that engage oral histories, culinary ritual around seaweed soup, and sonic environments. Through fieldwork, listening practices, and speculative narration, the works investigate how cultural memory persists through sensory transmission, labour, and everyday gestures.

Encounters at the edge of the sea:
1 - 6: Photographs from fieldwork conducted in Busan (2023).
1: Farm-grown seaweed.
2: Haenyeo (sea-women) Chae-eun Park (left) and Sam-gang Hyeon (right) posing for a photograph after the interviews. Hyeon, aged 83, worked as a haenyeo since she was 16 and retired in 2023 due to age.
3: A former haenyeo selling farm-grown seaweed and kelp at a local market in Busan.
4: Learning Hyangsuk's seaweed soup recipe, while recording for Sonic Coobook project.
5. 3D scan of seaweed soup rendered as a particle system
6: Seascape field recording.
7: Archival material: photograph of haenyoe from In search of Our Sound by Sang-Il Choi (2002).