Visible Sounds, Audible Pictures
Night on Earth, Futura Seoul’s signature public program, explores contemporary sensibilities and questions across disciplines and media.
For this edition, Night on Earth collaborates with the Hwaum Chamber Orchestra. Drawing from more than two decades of the Hwaum Project archive, the program presents a selection of works that illuminate the encounter between media art and contemporary composition. Video works by Jin Meyerson, JUNG Yeondoo, and Moon Kyungwon & JEON Joonho are paired with music by contemporary composers, creating moments in which images unfold into sound and music opens new visual dimensions.
Visible Sounds, Audible Pictures traverses the boundaries between performance and exhibition, visual art and music. By lowering barriers to contemporary composed music and situating it within an immersive sensory experience, the program invites audiences to encounter it in an accessible and intuitive way. We welcome you to a deeply immersive journey where images and music expand one another’s perceptual possibilities.
*Link: https://booking.naver.com/booking/12/bizes/1634283
Performance Information
Day 1ㅣJune 11, 2026 (Thu), 7 PMㅣJin Meyerson
*Programs
Mihyun Woo
Looplab: Inward Drift for String Quartet (2026, World Premiere)
▶ Video: Event Horizon (2025), single-channel video
Violin: Jiyoung Lee, Jihyun Park
Viola: Yeonsook Han
Cello: Jinkyung Kim
Jinseok Choi
Superimpositions for Seven Players (2026, World Premiere)
▶ Video: Descendent (2022), single-channel video
Violin: Jihyun Park
Cello: Jinkyung Kim
Flute: Rosa Jang
Oboe: Mingyu Yoon
Clarinet: Wooyeon Kim
Trumpet: Moonkyu Choi
Trombone: Yongbin Seol
Dongjin Bae
Asylum Field (2026, World Premiere)
▶ Video: Soul Asylum (2023), single-channel video
Violin: Jihyun Park, Jiyoung Lee
Viola: Yeonsook Han
Cello: Jinkyung Kim
Flute: Rosa Jang
Oboe: Mingyu Yoon
Clarinet: Wooyeon Kim
Trumpet: Moonkyu Choi
Trombone: Yongbin Seol
Percussion: Miyeon Kim
*Artist Talk
Jin Meyerson (Artist)
Sungah Choo (Independent Curator)
Abe Chung (Interpreter)
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Day 2ㅣJune 12, 2026 (Fri), 7 PMㅣJUNG Yeondoo
*Programs
Jisun Lim
Diaspora for Two Pianos
▶ Video: Syncopation #5 (2025), three-channel 4K digital video and single-channel ceramic vessel light installation, color, sound, mixed media, 17 min. 21 sec., dimensions variable
Piano: Dasul Jung, Dahyun Jung
Seokjin Chang
Documentary Nostalgia
▶ Video: Documentary Nostalgia (2007), silent single-channel HD video, 84 min., dimensions variable
Violin: Jiyoung Lee, Jihyun Park, Eugene Choi, Yena Pi, Junghyun Park, Seunghee Lee
Viola: Haram Choi, Hyesung Jeon
Cello: Jinkyung Kim, Jeheon Lee
Double Bass: Noik Park
*Artist Talk
JUNG Yeondoo (Artist)
Jisun Lim (Composer)
Eunah Cho (Professor, Kyung Hee University)
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Day 3ㅣJune 13, 2026 (Sat), 5 PMㅣMoon Kyungwon & JEON Joonho
*Programs
Hyukjin Shin
Beyond the World
▶ Video: Moon Kyungwon & JEON Joonho, El Fin del Mundo (The End of the World) (2012), two-channel HD video and sound installation, 13 min. 35 sec., installation view from documenta 13
Flute: Jieun Han
Violin: Jihyun Park
Viola: Yeonsook Han
Cello: Jinkyung Kim
Dongjin Bae
Back and Forth: Portrait of Brothers
▶ Video: JEON Joonho, Hyperrealism: Portrait of Brothers (2007), digital animation, single-channel video installation
Violin: Jihyun Park
Viola: Erwan Richard
Clarinet: Wooyeon Kim
Jisun Lim
Taxidermy
▶ Video: Moon Kyungwon, Taxidermy (2009), single-channel video, color, stereo sound, 13 min. 51 sec.
Violin: Jihyun Park, Junghyun Park
Viola: Yeonsook Han
Cello: Jinkyung Kim
Double Bass: Noik Park
Flute: Jieun Han
Oboe: Mingyu Yoon
Clarinet: Wooyeon Kim
Bassoon: Seokhee Yoon
Guitar: Miga Lim
*Artist Talk
Moon Kyungwon (Artist) & JEON Joonho (Artist)
Jung-Ah Woo (Professor, POSTECH)
Sangyeon Park (Director, Hwaum Chamber Orchestra)
Hwaum Project
The Hwaum Project—its name combining the Chinese characters for “painting” (hwa) and “sound” (eum)—is an artistic initiative that presents newly commissioned musical compositions inspired by works of visual art within exhibition spaces.
Since its inception in 2002, the project has premiered more than 240 new compositions and generated over 280 repeat performances, establishing a significant archive of contemporary Korean music.
Through collaborations with major museums across Korea—including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Busan Museum of Art, Nam June Paik Art Center, and Park Soo Keun Museum—the Hwaum Project has continually created spaces where visual art and music intersect. Rather than viewing artworks solely as objects of contemplation, the project encourages audiences to discover new sensory dimensions through music.
Hwaum Chamber Orchestra
The Hwaum Chamber Orchestra is one of Korea’s leading chamber orchestras, evolving from the ensemble Hwaum, founded in 1993 by Artistic Director Sangyeon Park. Reorganized as a string-centered chamber orchestra in 1996, it has played a pioneering role in Korea’s musical landscape through exceptional musicianship and innovative programming.
Through the Hwaum Project, launched in 2002, the orchestra has commissioned and premiered more than 300 contemporary works and presented hundreds of repeat performances, proposing new ways for contemporary music to engage with society. Beyond performance, it has fostered a creative ecosystem that brings together composers, critics, and performers, contributing significantly to the development of contemporary Korean music.
Participating Artists
Jin Meyerson
Jin Meyerson (b. 1972) is a Seoul-based Korean diasporic artist whose practice centers on painting while traversing the boundaries between figuration and abstraction. Since the late 1990s, he has incorporated analog and digital distortions, as well as randomized software processes, into his paintings. His work has expanded into video, installation, and augmented reality, exploring narratives of migration, fractured histories, postcoloniality, identity, and loss.
In recent years, Meyerson has continued to experiment with the ontology and contemporaneity of painting through the use of LIDAR scanning, AR overlays, and concepts of retrocausality. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, and is held in the collections of institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Saatchi Gallery.
JUNG Yeondoo
JUNG Yeondoo (b. 1969) is an artist whose work spans photography, video, and performance, investigating memory, history, and narrative through time-based media. His practice often brings together disparate cultural contexts, connecting people across different temporal and spatial realities while weaving together documentary and fiction, individual experience and collective history.
A graduate of Seoul National University and Goldsmiths, University of London, Jung gained international recognition through works such as My Love Genie, Wonderland, and Documentary Nostalgia. In 2007, he became both the youngest recipient and the first artist working primarily in photography and video to receive the Artist of the Year. In 2008, the Museum of Modern Art acquired one of his works. Since then, he has participated in major international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, and Shanghai Biennale. In 2023, he presented A Hundred-Year Journey as part of the MMCA Hyundai Motor Series, exploring themes of migration, borders, and memory.
Moon Kyungwon & JEON Joonho
Moon Kyungwon (b. 1969) and JEON Joonho (b. 1969) have collaborated since 2009 as an artist duo exploring questions surrounding contemporary civilization and human existence through video, installation, performance, and archival practices.
Their acclaimed long-term project NEWS FROM NOWHERE examines issues of art, technology, labor, community, and survival through speculative narratives and cinematic forms. Their work has been presented at major international exhibitions and institutions, including documenta, the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the Gwangju Biennale, and the MMCA Hyundai Motor Series. By organically integrating video, installation, and performance, their practice expands artistic imagination around the relationships between humanity, society, and future civilizations.
Hwaum Chamber Orchestra
Jin Meyerson, <Event Horizon> 2025, single channel video
JUNG Yeondoo, <Syncopation #5>, 2025, three-channel 4K digital video and single-channel ceramic vessel light installation, color, sound, mixed media, 17:21 min., dimensions variable
Moon Kyungwon & JEON Joonho, <El Fin del Mundo> , 2012, two-channel HD video and sound installation, 13 min. 35 sec., installation view at documenta (Kassel)
Visible Sounds, Audible Pictures
Night on Earth, Futura Seoul’s signature public program, explores contemporary sensibilities and questions across disciplines and media.
For this edition, Night on Earth collaborates with the Hwaum Chamber Orchestra. Drawing from more than two decades of the Hwaum Project archive, the program presents a selection of works that illuminate the encounter between media art and contemporary composition. Video works by Jin Meyerson, JUNG Yeondoo, and Moon Kyungwon & JEON Joonho are paired with music by contemporary composers, creating moments in which images unfold into sound and music opens new visual dimensions.
Visible Sounds, Audible Pictures traverses the boundaries between performance and exhibition, visual art and music. By lowering barriers to contemporary composed music and situating it within an immersive sensory experience, the program invites audiences to encounter it in an accessible and intuitive way. We welcome you to a deeply immersive journey where images and music expand one another’s perceptual possibilities.
*Link: https://booking.naver.com/booking/12/bizes/1634283
Performance Information
Day 1ㅣJune 11, 2026 (Thu), 7 PMㅣJin Meyerson
*Programs
Mihyun Woo
Looplab: Inward Drift for String Quartet (2026, World Premiere)
▶ Video: Event Horizon (2025), single-channel video
Violin: Jiyoung Lee, Jihyun Park
Viola: Yeonsook Han
Cello: Jinkyung Kim
Jinseok Choi
Superimpositions for Seven Players (2026, World Premiere)
▶ Video: Descendent (2022), single-channel video
Violin: Jihyun Park
Cello: Jinkyung Kim
Flute: Rosa Jang
Oboe: Mingyu Yoon
Clarinet: Wooyeon Kim
Trumpet: Moonkyu Choi
Trombone: Yongbin Seol
Dongjin Bae
Asylum Field (2026, World Premiere)
▶ Video: Soul Asylum (2023), single-channel video
Violin: Jihyun Park, Jiyoung Lee
Viola: Yeonsook Han
Cello: Jinkyung Kim
Flute: Rosa Jang
Oboe: Mingyu Yoon
Clarinet: Wooyeon Kim
Trumpet: Moonkyu Choi
Trombone: Yongbin Seol
Percussion: Miyeon Kim
*Artist Talk
Jin Meyerson (Artist)
Sungah Choo (Independent Curator)
Abe Chung (Interpreter)
_____
Day 2ㅣJune 12, 2026 (Fri), 7 PMㅣJUNG Yeondoo
*Programs
Jisun Lim
Diaspora for Two Pianos
▶ Video: Syncopation #5 (2025), three-channel 4K digital video and single-channel ceramic vessel light installation, color, sound, mixed media, 17 min. 21 sec., dimensions variable
Piano: Dasul Jung, Dahyun Jung
Seokjin Chang
Documentary Nostalgia
▶ Video: Documentary Nostalgia (2007), silent single-channel HD video, 84 min., dimensions variable
Violin: Jiyoung Lee, Jihyun Park, Eugene Choi, Yena Pi, Junghyun Park, Seunghee Lee
Viola: Haram Choi, Hyesung Jeon
Cello: Jinkyung Kim, Jeheon Lee
Double Bass: Noik Park
*Artist Talk
JUNG Yeondoo (Artist)
Jisun Lim (Composer)
Eunah Cho (Professor, Kyung Hee University)
_____
Day 3ㅣJune 13, 2026 (Sat), 5 PMㅣMoon Kyungwon & JEON Joonho
*Programs
Hyukjin Shin
Beyond the World
▶ Video: Moon Kyungwon & JEON Joonho, El Fin del Mundo (The End of the World) (2012), two-channel HD video and sound installation, 13 min. 35 sec., installation view from documenta 13
Flute: Jieun Han
Violin: Jihyun Park
Viola: Yeonsook Han
Cello: Jinkyung Kim
Dongjin Bae
Back and Forth: Portrait of Brothers
▶ Video: JEON Joonho, Hyperrealism: Portrait of Brothers (2007), digital animation, single-channel video installation
Violin: Jihyun Park
Viola: Erwan Richard
Clarinet: Wooyeon Kim
Jisun Lim
Taxidermy
▶ Video: Moon Kyungwon, Taxidermy (2009), single-channel video, color, stereo sound, 13 min. 51 sec.
Violin: Jihyun Park, Junghyun Park
Viola: Yeonsook Han
Cello: Jinkyung Kim
Double Bass: Noik Park
Flute: Jieun Han
Oboe: Mingyu Yoon
Clarinet: Wooyeon Kim
Bassoon: Seokhee Yoon
Guitar: Miga Lim
*Artist Talk
Moon Kyungwon (Artist) & JEON Joonho (Artist)
Jung-Ah Woo (Professor, POSTECH)
Sangyeon Park (Director, Hwaum Chamber Orchestra)
Hwaum Project
The Hwaum Project—its name combining the Chinese characters for “painting” (hwa) and “sound” (eum)—is an artistic initiative that presents newly commissioned musical compositions inspired by works of visual art within exhibition spaces.
Since its inception in 2002, the project has premiered more than 240 new compositions and generated over 280 repeat performances, establishing a significant archive of contemporary Korean music.
Through collaborations with major museums across Korea—including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Busan Museum of Art, Nam June Paik Art Center, and Park Soo Keun Museum—the Hwaum Project has continually created spaces where visual art and music intersect. Rather than viewing artworks solely as objects of contemplation, the project encourages audiences to discover new sensory dimensions through music.
Hwaum Chamber Orchestra
The Hwaum Chamber Orchestra is one of Korea’s leading chamber orchestras, evolving from the ensemble Hwaum, founded in 1993 by Artistic Director Sangyeon Park. Reorganized as a string-centered chamber orchestra in 1996, it has played a pioneering role in Korea’s musical landscape through exceptional musicianship and innovative programming.
Through the Hwaum Project, launched in 2002, the orchestra has commissioned and premiered more than 300 contemporary works and presented hundreds of repeat performances, proposing new ways for contemporary music to engage with society. Beyond performance, it has fostered a creative ecosystem that brings together composers, critics, and performers, contributing significantly to the development of contemporary Korean music.
Participating Artists
Jin Meyerson
Jin Meyerson (b. 1972) is a Seoul-based Korean diasporic artist whose practice centers on painting while traversing the boundaries between figuration and abstraction. Since the late 1990s, he has incorporated analog and digital distortions, as well as randomized software processes, into his paintings. His work has expanded into video, installation, and augmented reality, exploring narratives of migration, fractured histories, postcoloniality, identity, and loss.
In recent years, Meyerson has continued to experiment with the ontology and contemporaneity of painting through the use of LIDAR scanning, AR overlays, and concepts of retrocausality. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, and is held in the collections of institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Saatchi Gallery.
JUNG Yeondoo
JUNG Yeondoo (b. 1969) is an artist whose work spans photography, video, and performance, investigating memory, history, and narrative through time-based media. His practice often brings together disparate cultural contexts, connecting people across different temporal and spatial realities while weaving together documentary and fiction, individual experience and collective history.
A graduate of Seoul National University and Goldsmiths, University of London, Jung gained international recognition through works such as My Love Genie, Wonderland, and Documentary Nostalgia. In 2007, he became both the youngest recipient and the first artist working primarily in photography and video to receive the Artist of the Year. In 2008, the Museum of Modern Art acquired one of his works. Since then, he has participated in major international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, and Shanghai Biennale. In 2023, he presented A Hundred-Year Journey as part of the MMCA Hyundai Motor Series, exploring themes of migration, borders, and memory.
Moon Kyungwon & JEON Joonho
Moon Kyungwon (b. 1969) and JEON Joonho (b. 1969) have collaborated since 2009 as an artist duo exploring questions surrounding contemporary civilization and human existence through video, installation, performance, and archival practices.
Their acclaimed long-term project NEWS FROM NOWHERE examines issues of art, technology, labor, community, and survival through speculative narratives and cinematic forms. Their work has been presented at major international exhibitions and institutions, including documenta, the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the Gwangju Biennale, and the MMCA Hyundai Motor Series. By organically integrating video, installation, and performance, their practice expands artistic imagination around the relationships between humanity, society, and future civilizations.
Hwaum Chamber Orchestra
Jin Meyerson, <Event Horizon> 2025, single channel video
JUNG Yeondoo, <Syncopation #5>, 2025, three-channel 4K digital video and single-channel ceramic vessel light installation, color, sound, mixed media, 17:21 min., dimensions variable
Moon Kyungwon & JEON Joonho, <El Fin del Mundo> , 2012, two-channel HD video and sound installation, 13 min. 35 sec., installation view at documenta (Kassel)