Choreographer and modern dancer Mimi Jeong puts forth a way of communication that transcends the limitations of online-based communication with voices and screen in the current situation where non-face-to-face communication has become a norm.
Tremolog – One Body Concert, an experiential video piece, maximizes a body language and attempts a new way of communication with individuals in isolation. Tremolog is the amalgamation of tremor and logue, meaning a story. Mimi Jeong starts from the perspective that all the sounds from a body can be traced back to movement and conducts a minute analysis of a body using ‘vibrations’ as if dissecting a body to identify the source and the cause of movement that makes a body complete.
A performer‘s utterance is reinterpreted into the movement with her body and delivered to the audience with the electronic sounds and vibrations derived from a technological system. This project creates a new way of communication by taking a non-linguistic approach using a technology that expands human senses to allow the audience to explore how languages and sounds are transformed and perceived by others. This also serves as an alternative to a situation where live performances are not available anymore due to COVID-19 and implies that a new relationship can be set to overcome the physical distance between the artist living overseas and the audience based in Korea.
Mimi Jeong
2020, single channel video, color, sound, mixed media, 9 min 24 sec