The meaning or the value of something does not always remain constant, new meanings and values develop; however, the original ones are not lost.
In my work "Coexistence", I relate to the everyday culture of my homeland. My subject matter is the way in which the traditional arts, which today live on only far from their source, as theatre or in museums, are being reshaped.
The objects made of white loudspeaker cable adopt the formal canon of traditional Korean ceramics. In the past, these vessels were important and common household objects. [...] Today, new devices have taken over many of those functions. The original objects no longer have a practical purpose; they have become parts of museum collections of artisanal artefacts.
The same is true of the development of traditional Korean percussion music. Originally close to daily life as the music that was played at celebrations such as weddings or birthdays, or also when working in the fields, it developed into a purely art music. Today it is almost exclusively heard in concert performances on theatre stages.
I follow this transformation of the world of everyday objects to an art form in my choice of materials. The vessels are made of an ordinary material: white loudspeaker cables. Over these skeins, I conduct the electroacoustic signals of a sound composition I have developed into loudspeakers in the interior of the ceramic forms. [...]
In the sound composition, [everyday sounds] are arranged according to the compositional principles of traditional Korean percussion music. [...] In this way, household objects that have become art are restored to their practical uses on the level of sound.