Louie Jihyun Kim workshop. Case of the exhibition “SOUNDMUSEUM” (D MUSEUM, Seoul, Korea, 2020) workshop

The SOUNDMUSEUM exhibition featured more than 20 sound-based artworks and multi-sensory experiences ranging from sound installations, interactive sound & light installations to visual music and audience-driven performances. Throughout the curatorial narrative and space design, which embraced art pieces in 13 separated and newly built sound spaces, the exhibition organized across multiple dimensions to invite the audiences to be active performers and experience live moments delivered by the resonance of sound and emotional stimulation.

The exhibition successfully opened to the public during the pandemic haul, thanks to a rigorous health protocol that prevented any transmissions at the museum.

The SOUNDMUSEUM exhibition will be viewed during the workshop as a single 8-months-long running timeline performance, with artists, their works, the museum and the public as one integral part of the exhibition.

About the program:

This workshop is a part of the section «Theatre and museum. Project work» within the educational program «Theatre and museum. Collaboration experiences».

Collaboration between museums and theaters has become mainstream. This is not only a manifestation of interdisciplinarity, one of the main features of contemporary art, not only an attempt to master unconventional spaces, and not only a way to optimize costs or develop the audience.

Joint project work is also an opportunity to reinterpret traditional, common genres and forms of cultural activity.

Contextual tasks of museum and theater projects cannot be accomplished without the formation and development of organizational, administrative, and production skills and competencies in their creators, that allow them to efficiently implement the projects, respond to requests and suggestions from the art team and establish inter-institutional cooperation and partnership.

The course presents forms and formats of museum and theater collaboration and allows participants to master their skills of implementing and producing the projects created at the intersection of theater and museum practices. The course facilitates development of competencies in the area of project management, logistics, timing, legal and financial issues, marketing in cultural activities, from the idea of museum and theater project to its implementation and promotion.

The course involves studying the experience of the world’s largest institutions as well as work with Russian curators and producers.

photo credit: House of Ear, David Helbich (©D Museum)