Intro

The viewing of Room5? is an introspective one through the experience of gagok

Synopsis

No Longer Gagok: room 5? is composed for a full sensory experience of gagok, Korean traditional lyric song
which was popular in the salons in the 18th century.
Translating its musical structure into a spatial form, the position of each room, the performance is conceived as one person theatre
working to resonate and work deep inside each listener.
The position and texture of voice heard from each room is the interpretation of gagok by 박박parkpark.
This spatial apparatus shows the inherent musical qualities of gagok and its intimate language,
revealing how the genre is strongly founded in poetry.
The second piece of the No Longer Gagok series after Four Nights, Room 5? ’s composition is
completed through the audience’s act of viewing.

Review

"The music maintains a development still unfamiliar to the ears that are used to Western harmonies and rhythms. A song that is complete only when the preconceptions about what a song is are taken off - a sound, refined yet untamed.

A close yet subtle distance lets us witness not the movements of a person but physical motions of voice. Park also experiments different narrative methods with Gagok; not one of explaining a plot but projecting a story as form."
- KIM Haeju, “Article”(Korea) April 2014 issue

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Creator / artist

박박parkpark, led by artist PARK, Min-hee who has been working on rearranging traditional culture inside the contemporary context, explores the voices where a certain locality remains, as in Korean traditional lyrical poems and music: gagok, gasa or shijo. Its ongoing conclusions are presented in the performances. Investigating both inside and outside the musical forms that have been containing voices, 박박parkpark’s performances are composed in a way that they can construct a form within which the audience, stage and actors/performers can all be interpreted. Their works Four Nights and Room5? show the ways of doing gagok explored by PARK Minhee.

Promotion Infomation

TOUR SIZE
Performers : 6
Staff : 2

DURATION
28 min. (No intermission)

STAGE SIZE
Width : 2 m, Depth : 2 m, Height : 2.8 m

Contact

LEE, Kyung-hoo

Interview Link