Park Jihyoung

South Korea

Park Jihyoung’s work talks about the inner world of people through relation-ships. Park believes that art is a process of therapy, and through that process she expresses her unconscious. The sharing of energy gained through the process leads to a semi-conscious world of emotional connection and the experience of sharing through movement and interaction with the audience. Some of her notable works include Kindness performed in 2016, Korea Wanju, Open Space NU-E; Repeats in 2017, Korea Wanju, Gosan Miso Market; Cure in 2017, Korea Busan, Dadaepo Beach; and BAEKHWA in 2018, KIPAF, India. She has also collaborated with Matt Gale in many performances such as the Axis Mundi and Wave 9 and with B Ajay Sharma in Where did the ghosts go? and Missing.

Work Title: Habit

It turns back to you for a long time.

And it comes to you slowly, and it stays with you in the same form.

It breaks you up and builds you up, it makes you move.

And it becomes you.

How many repetitions did one person have to make for it to become a habit?

It’s going to be a lot of iterations that you didn’t even think about, and it will take another iterative action to change that previous habit.

Habits are like life.

Life is also a continuation of all iteration. One situation don’t come only once, comes with several cycles. Through the recurring situation, we are looking for solutions and gradually developing. In that repetition, I create myself, makes a reason for how I feel, think and act.