Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest III

MELA Foundation presents Jung Hee Choi’s recent works, Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest III, Thursday through Saturday, August 21 – September 11, 2010, 6 pm to midnight, in the MELA Dream House, 275 Church Street, 3rd floor, New York. Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest III features three large-scale multimedia installations, a series of drawings, videos and a new sound environment, Tonecycle Base 65 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi improvising over the implied tonic. The relationship of the improvisations to the drone continuously elaborates the musical meaning of the pitch. This exhibition also premiers the installation work Composition 2010 #1 created with needlepoint drawings on black wrap with video. The drawings are viewed as indiscernibly moving light from video projection glowing through the pinholes creating abstract and analogous representation of Manifest Unmanifest. In a further expansion of the concept of Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest presented at Tompkins Square Gallery in 2007 and MELA Dream House in 2009, this show illuminates various aspects of Choi’s works and their relationships across different media. Choi has written, “This series of environmental compositions involves the concept of “Manifest, Unmanifest” created with various media including video, drawing, incense, performance and sound. This synthesis of expression collectively creates an intersubjective space as a unified continuum. In rejecting our current mode of perception that stresses ‘sight’ as the primary model of organizing the sensorium, this series of works emphasizes the totality of sense perceptions as a single unit to create a state of immersion. It is especially meaningful for me to show my works in the Dream House space because my work has evolved from the visionary inspiration of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. With this exhibition audiences may experience Young and Zazeela’s concept of eternity taking a form of ephemeral presence that is infinitely variable while flowing from the principles they have delineated.“ Jung Hee Choi Works: Composition 2010 #1, 2010, variable dimensions; mixed media: Needlepoint Drawing #3 (36 x 60 inches) Needlepoint Drawing #4 (36 x 60 inches), black wrap with pinholes, translucent paper, video Tonecycle Base 65 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version, 2010, sound environment: the linear superposition of 36 sine wave frequencies and 6 channel voices set in ratios based on the harmonics 2, 3 and 7 imperceptibly ascending toward fixed frequencies and then descending toward the starting frequencies, infinitely revolving as in circles, in parallel and various rates of similar motion to create continuous slow phase shifts with long beat cycles RICE, 1999-2009, variable dimensions, multi-channel video installation Composition 2006 #3 (Spirit), 2006, 60 x 72 in., mixed media: drawing and video AUM (incense calligraphy), 2008, 39 min. 09 sec. loop, video Color (CNN), 2009, 21 min. 23 sec. loop, video Drawings: Composition 2006 #2, 2006, 20 x 24 in., graphite on black paper Composition 2008 #1, 2008, 18 x 24 in., graphite on black paper Composition 2008 #2, 2008, 18 x 24 in., graphite on black paper Composition 2008 #4, 2008, 18 x 24 in., graphite on black paper Composition 2008 #5, 2008, 24 x 36 in., graphite on black paper