Leere Orchestra

2021 (25'44"), three-channel video installation

Leere Orchestra is an essayistic 3-channel video work that examines the past, the present, and an undetermined future of the artist and her milieu. The title Leere Orchestra is the artist's German translation of the word karaoke (jap. カラオケ, "empty orchestra"). Karaoke is made of two words: から（空） means emptiness but also fake. "Oke" stands for orchestra. In South Korean work and everyday culture, the karaoke bar is an important social place, which is why these are also frequented by Koreans abroad. The bars become the focal point of diasporic communities - and the singing is an expression of the connection to home.

Credit

Cast:
Uncle - Sung Dae Kwon 
Mom - Sang Sook Kwon
Father - Kil Hwan Lee

Humming-person:
Gabi Kim
Morad Nakhaie
Jung Woo Kang
Miji Ih

Staff:
Gimbal Operator - Hara Shin
Production Assistant - Yoonjoo Anan Lee
Production Sound - Nadin Heinke
All-rounder - Martin Schinagl
Proof reading - Pegah Keshmirshekan
Location - Restaurant WaWa 
Location Provider - Jinny Lim

Footage: 
American Beauty (1999) - Sam Mendes 

Music:
One Million Roses(1997) - Soo-bong Sim
Should I Stay or Should I Go (1982) - The Clash 

Book:
Survival Lexikon für die Hosentasche - Rüdiger Nehberg
New Inside Out

inspired by:
Coming to You, Minu(2018) - Hyewon Jee

Thanks to:
Klasse Pryde 
Josephine Pryde 
Werkstatt UdK Berlin 
Christoph Manz 
Stefan Kunzmann 
Bodo Schlack