Necessary Withdrawal: From stage to solitude
30.10.2025 Artist talk with Koh Juen
From 10:00–11:30 on Zoom (request link via )
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Koh Juen is a (conceptual) sound artist, composer, and writer. She is a Taoist and Hermetic practitioner, with experience in psychological counseling and feminist education.
Her research examines gendered differences in the history of sound practice and approaches sonic expression as an “infinite game” that deterritorializes social and spatial hierarchies while reshaping relations between self, other, and environment.Her practice liberates sound from secondary status, employing synesthetic composition, carefully crafted synthetic textures, and neoclassical strategies to foreground spatial and narrative interpretation while engaging embodied phenomena. Performances often adopt a de-authorship approach that disrupts the audience-performer binary, seeking to redirect audiences’ attention from external spectacle to the immanent transformations engendered by sound.
She regards sound as an intellectual instrument capable of expanding perception, affect, and understanding beyond the collective subconscious. @kohjuen
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[Image description: A live shot from the sound check of the sound-literature performance Desert Woman, at Yö Galleria. The projection displays the geographic location of the Sahara Desert. This project crafts text-sonified narratives into spatially immersive experiences through custom-designed soundscapes, emphasising the interplay between literary semantics, synesthetic composition within a hyper-narrative structure. Information about the event; organizers, title, date, time, format and artist’s name is provided as text].
Photo credit: Koh Juen.
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