10.16 (Fri) 17:00 ★
10.17 (Sat) 11:00 ♡
10.17 (Sat) 15:30
★ Post-show talk
160min (TBC)
*3 performances with set change / intervals between each performance
Adult: ¥3,500
Youth*, Students: ¥3,000
Pair: ¥6,500
Day tickets:Advance ticket price+¥500
*25 and under
[Hidden Village, Kim Kangyeon]
Japanese with English surtitles
[Next to the Horizon (Still), Lee Minjin ]
Korean with Japanese and English surtitles
No admission for audiences aged 17 and under.
For this performance, we ask the audience to sit on the floor.
Going outside the familiar code:
An experimental showcase introducing the forefront of
Korea’s performing arts
This program is a collaboration between MMCA Seoul (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) and Kyoto Experiment. Both champions of artistic expression that keenly reflects the contemporary currents of their respective cities, the two institutions introduce the newest talents from their local scenes to one another’s audiences. This year, three artists from MMCA present their work in Kyoto in a showcase featuring three performances.
From the new generation of emerging artists, we introduce a sound image performance by Kim Kangyeon, and a solo dance performance by Lee Minjin. Also, Park Minhee, who has ventured beyond the field of traditional music to create new sonic and spatial experiences, returns to the festival for the first time in nine years to present a new work.
Hidden Village, Kim Kangyeon [Performance]
A bird that spends many years and months in the deep sea becomes a sea monster shaped like a shellfish. Its breath forms mirages. Inspired by East Asian mythology, this work is a performance using sound and film created by Kim Kangyeon, an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on revealing the layers and structures of worlds that have been forgotten or remain beyond perception. Starting from the wandering echo that can be heard when pressing a shell to one’s ear, the audience go on a journey through an extrasensory world that could be a phantasm, the deep sea, or the abyss of the cosmos.
Artist Profile
Kim Kangyeon
Seoul, South Korea
Kim Kangyeon works across performance, video, and sound, focusing on revealing the layers and structures of worlds that have been forgotten or remain beyond perception. In particular, this interest is often manifested through the theater as a primary conduit. For Kim, the theater is not merely a physical space, but a site where fiction is projected onto reality and imagination overlaps with a definitively tangible world. In Kim’s practice, the theater always operates as a space where what has been hidden or deleted―in an unfinished state―is summoned once again. By repositioning the presence of the invisible, such as drifting words or ghosts without bodies, at the center of the stage, Kim experiments with the potential to expand the limits of sensation and perception.
Next to the Horizon (Still), Lee Minjin [Performance]
A dancer on stage is a performing subject, but also an object that is seen and commodified by the audience. Can the dancing body truly be liberated from the expectations of others and the burden of representation? In this solo performance, Lee Minjin confronts this paradox by examining the shifting labels, meanings, and demands imposed upon her body. Within the limited horizontal space of the theater, Lee’s body remains continuously exposed to the audience’s gaze, inviting the audience to question how they see, and to reflect on their own desires, assumptions, and uncertainties.
Artist Profile
Lee Minjin
Seoul, South Korea
Lee Minjin is a performance and dance artist who embodies, witnesses, and makes dance. Her artistic practice, which originates from the performativity and agency of a dancer, approaches dance not merely as a means of expression for performance, but as a medium for sensory exploration that moves across the boundaries between stage and life, the mundane and the extraordinary. Rather than choreography(as a form), her work focuses on the vitality and relation of dance itself, at times exploring the possibilities of dance through things that may not appear to be dance at all. She leans toward invisible or easily overlooked sensations, marginalized beings, and invites movement outside of familiar codes and languages into the field of dance. Lee’s works include Too Big to Perform (Ob/Scene Focus, Seoul, 2025), Next to the Horizon (Ob/Scene Festival, Seoul, 2024), STAY STAY STAY (Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon, 2024), and Salamander in Area (Royal X Club, 2022). She also participated in the curated exhibition HOLE (Windmill, Seoul, 2021) with the performance missing link.
A Stage of Inner Listening, Park Minhee [Performance]
A new work by Park Minhee, an artist known for reinterpreting the traditional Korean vocal genre of gagok through a contemporary sensibility. Gagok maintains a distinctive, almost hypnotic, sense of time, in order to fully unfold the spaces that exist between words and syllables. This leads us into an uncharted sonic realm that contrasts starkly with the rapid rhythms of contemporary life. Experiencing a heightened state of listening in the near darkness, the audience senses subtle resonances of sound and lingering traces of silence with the entire body. What does it mean to listen with our whole being? Where does our inner self reside?
Artist Profile
Park Minhee
Seoul, South Korea
Designated as Important Intangible Cultural Heritage No.30 of Korea, Park Minhee, as isuja (certified practitioner) of gagok (a genre of traditional Korean vocal music), is an artist who reinterprets the aesthetics and structure of traditional Korean music through a contemporary sensibility. Continually questioning what it means to practice traditional music today, Park has been engaging in experimental work that redefines, in musical terms, the relationship between performer and audience beyond the act of mere listening. In her work, the body is not merely an instrument that produces sound, but a site where music lives and resonates. Through this shift, she offers the audience a sonic and spatial experience unlike any other. Her best known works include the No Longer Gagok series, Hanging Bed, and Wind Belows from the Mountain Where Spirits Gathered.
Kim Kangyeon, Hidden Village
Director: Kim Kangyeon
Performer: Kenta Masukawa
Sound: Park Hyunjun
Commission: Ob/Scene Focus
Co-production: Ob/Scene Focus, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Lee Minjin, Next to the Horizon (Still)
Choreography, performance: Lee Minjin
Dramaturgy: Guillermina Gancio, Yoon Sangeun
Music: Yang Sunyoung
Co-production: Ob/Scene Festival, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Park Minhee, A Stage of Inner Listening
Concept, Director and Cast: Park Minhee
Cast: Kim Min Ji, Lee Ki Pum, Jo Seon-Ah
Lighting Designer: Seo Gayeong
Commissioned and Produced by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Curator: Sung Yonghee
Co-curating: Kyoto Experiment, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Supported by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
| Japan Arts Council
Presented by Kyoto Experiment, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
This presentation by Kim Kangyeon, Lee Minjin and Park Minhee has been made possible with the support of Hermès.

