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Dawoon Park & Seryun Yang


Dawoon Park is a South Korean media artist born in 1991, working in installation, film, and performance. She explores artistic fashion in autonomous symbolic processes, deconstructing dominant narratives to highlight marginalized perspectives in postcolonial contexts. Her works have been showcased at Vorspiel Transmediale, CTM Festival, and 48h Neukölln in Berlin. Her projects have received funding from ARKO (Arts Council Korea) and DAAD. She is currently a PhD candidate at University of the Arts Bremen and University of Groningen.
Website: https://dawoonpark.net
Instagram: @dawoonipark


Seryun Yang was born in 1988 in South Korea and graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree in Oriental painting. She is currently studying Visual Art at the University of Kassel in Germany. She participated in numerous group exhibitions with works based on Oriental painting, and in 2015, she expanded her practice to include installation and video art, following the exhibition <Workshop:Shameful experience and Experience of being Insulted(공동수련:욕보다)>. In 2022, she participated in <Drifting Home, House without Words> at AkA, one of the venues of Documenta 15, and is preparing for her solo exhibition <Sauerkrautkimchijjigae(자우어크라우트김치찌개)> in December 2024 in Korea.
Instagram: @se.ryun_y

Echoing Cosmic Narcissism


Dawoon’s essay, Echoing Cosmic Narcissism, part of the doctoral project Wibbly-Wobbly Symbol, Touch-Feely Space, reimagines iconicity in language through the myth of Echo and Narcissus. By reapproaching Korean mimetic words—의성어 (onomatopoeia) and 의태어 (ideophone)—where sound patterns reflect the spatio-temporal aspects of what we see, hear, and feel, the figure of Echo embodies how language can resonate with our immediate experiences. In contrast, Narcissus’ obsession with his reflection symbolizes a detachment of meaning from material reality. This essay will be reconstructed in an event such as a reading-performance, lecture-performance, or screening of a video essay (to be announced later), inviting the audience to engage and explore these themes, while also working as a frame to introduce the collaborative project with Seryun.

How to Feel Like Echo: Body in Transformation

(working title)


The collaborative project between Seryun and Dawoon looks at how migration and identity changes affect people’s sense of self and their relationship with language. Inspired by Echo’s story from the Metamorphoses by Ovid and the book Dictee by Teresa Hak Kyung Cha, we will interview people whose lives have been shaped by moving to new places and adapting to different cultural and linguistic environments. We’ll capture their stories and emotions through short texts and drawings, and bring them to life using performative and archival forms of art. The project aims to examine how the challenges of language and identity can be explored and expressed through artistic practices.

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