Experience The Land of Morning Calm – One Day Only
On May 2nd, Trinity Square Video proudly opens its doors to TSV member Vito Park for a special one-day exhibition: The Land of Morning Calm.
The Land of Morning Calm confronts the deep fractures of division and strife in the South Korean political landscape by transforming sound and image into agents of physical impact. Sound and image in this exhibition function not as passive representations but as tectonic materials: agents of rupture, collision, and reverberation that expose the deep, layered structures of war, ideology, and identity. Each work translates geopolitical tensions into visceral and tactile experiences that reveal their ongoing impact on the body as a sensorial site.
Artist and instrument maker Vito Park, shaped by his background as a classically trained pianist, forges sonic and visual media into volatile energies that expose the hidden architectures of conflict, authority, and polarization shaping today’s world.
Join us for this one-day exhibition and engage with Vito Park’s powerful exploration of sound, image, and political landscapes.
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For 50 years, Trinity Square has been a champion of media arts practices. Our activities are guided by a goal to increase our members’ and audiences’ understanding and imagination of what media arts practices can be. Trinity Square strives to create supportive environments, encouraging artistic and curatorial experimentation that challenge medium specificity through education, production and presentation supports.
As video-based practices have become increasingly present across disciplines, Trinity Square engages artists and curators in critical investigations into the changing conditions of perception, materiality and the virtual. We consider all of our artistic activities and structures through a process of critical self-reflection, continuously evaluating the ethical positioning of our programming, jury structures, inter-organizational relationships, et cetera. In addition to holding aesthetic worth in its own right, our artistic programming extends our education and production activities in order to generate new knowledges.
Trinity Square’s programming is guided by three priorities: 1) promoting an expanded definition of media arts; 2) promoting the meaningful engagement of diverse voices in all levels of our operations; and 3) supporting and nurturing the production of new works by artists and curators. Our membership represents the diversity of the city and honours the original mandate of the organization—seeking to reduce barriers to access related to race, gender, sexual orientation, and socio- economic and physical ability.
