MMCA Performing Arts 2023: Meditation on YouTube wants to shine a light on the many tired contemporary people who go on to YouTube—a veritable “electronic forest”—to find some kind of equilibrium for themselves in the midst of their hectic daily life, not to mention the cultural cornucopia going on around them. This includes ways to take care of your mind, relationships based on online platforms, and changes in the utility and role of the arts. What efforts do you make to find comfort in your life these days? Have any of these efforts been successful?

Part 1. (Electronic) Meditation with Nam June Paik (May-July 2023)

Part 2. Music as Autonomy-Pleasure and Playlists (June-August 2023)

Part 3. Noise-Cancelling and Ambient, Body and Voice (September-November 2023)

Part 4. Contemplating Well-being in the Age of Indulgence (November 2023-February 2024)


Part 4. Contemplating Well-being in the Age of Indulgence

4-1
The scene looks familiar
Wi Sunghee
Dec. 7-12, 2023. 2 p.m./3 p.m./4 p.m./5 p.m.

What kind of senses do we need to see things that are not revealed, things that have not been revealed yet, and the like? To witness these brief moments together, the audience first engages in a strange sensory exercise, and then tries a different way of viewing−while looking at the empty stage.

4-2
Inner Space
Nam Junghyun
Jan. 18–24, 2024

This work requires the audience to confront darkness, light, space, time, and the self with searing rawness for an extended period of time. Not empty, but empty at the same time, these elements only occasionally reveal their abyss as they expand from the other side of the subject or within the subject.