Hyo Jee Kang
강 효 지
About MAG (English)
MAG is a group of people who seek to unite creative minds beyond time and space. We have been working with the following people internationally. As a being who exists in historical time and space where the past, present, and future are like a web, we ask questions and explore the recognizable world and the world beyond.
Hyo Jee Kang
Hyo Jee Kang is the founder and leader of MAG.
She has been focusing on the transformation between media and objects to create a new art form.
She works with media artists and live-electronic performers by presenting improvisation, recomposed composition, and her originals.
Her activity as a composer, performer, creator, and improviser has featured throughout Germany, Spain, Italy, Korea, Japan, the USA, Israel, etc.
Hyo Jee currently resides in New York City and Seoul, Korea, serves as a professor at Korea National University of Transportation.
In May 2018, she gave her solo performance with great success at Lincoln Center, including the Conceptual Transformation Performance.
Hyo Jee’s YouTube channel is youtube.com/hyojeekang.
Bo Choi
Bo Choi is a fashion designer and innovative artist.
With a primary focus in new media art and fashion design,
she envisions clothes as both renderings explicit their
capacity to represent the self as well as building upon, and
breaking with, past conventions to allow an endless
refashioning of the self-disallowed by the limited vocabulary
of much art and fashion today. Currently, she is a visiting
lecture at Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design in
Indiana University, Bloomington. bch1.myportfolio.com/
Damian Marhulets
Damian Marhulets is a Germany-based composer, visual artist, and producer.
As an artist-in-residence, he worked at such renowned venues as the Center for Art and
Media Karlsruhe, ACROE Institute Grenoble, and STEIM Amsterdam. His multimedia
works have been presented at many different galleries and museums of modern art.
For Damian Marhulets, modern philosophy plays an important role both for personal
research and as a source of inspiration. His fascination for works of such cutting-edge
thinkers as Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux, David Roden, Reza Negarestani,
Timothy Morton, Nick Land, and others helps him to explore new forms of musical
expression. He also works on establishing directer shapes of exchange between art,
music, modern philosophy, and science through personal contact with many words
leading thinkers and scientists and curating his transdisciplinary event series such as
“Unfold” or more recent “Brilliant Darkness.” In addition to his research, Damian
Marhulets also teaches composition, electroacoustic music, and sound design at the
Music Academy Neue Sterne Hannover and gives workshops on electronic music, audio
and visual software (MaxMSP, Ableton, Bitwig, Cinema4D, Houdini, VDMX), modular
synthesizers and sound design. Currently signed with Neue Meister / Berlin Classic,
he released out of two new albums since 2017. damian-marhulets.com/
Tien Hsiao-Tzu
Freelance choreographer, dancer, and performer.
Tien uses choreography as a chisel of her life, cuts out contradictions and labels that block her self-discovery,
and tries to reveal the powerful emotions inherent in her body.
Looking into the desires and fears of life, she finds an exit from the trajectory of life and its various patterns.
Recently she started to focus more on the social phenomenon and gender issues.
In 2016 she was selected by the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan for the artist residency program in Paris.
Her works have been premiered at Taipei Arts Festival, Dance Massive (Melbourne), America Dance Festival, and others.
The Hole and Stem have been presented respectively in Avignon Off, Shenzhen Contemporary Theatre Biennale, and Dance Bridges Festival (Kolkata).
Since 2014 she has been the movement designer for various theater companies, such as Style Lab and Wind & Ear Studio.
Her choreography pieces include: Re: in the elapsed time (2020), Lucid Dream (2019), In the elapsed time (2019), The Hole (2015), Blank (2015),
They Dig a Hole under the Eyes(2014), Traveler (2012), and Stem (2011).
Jaewoo Jung
An alum of the innovative company Bereishit, Jaewoo has founded his own collaborative, Braveman. In the solo “uninhabited island,” you can see his admiration for Buster Keaton, as he mimes inflating himself and being blown about or makes two of his fingers into runa way puppets. Impressively lithe, Jaewoo is not quite funny, but the ensemble piece “Perfect Skill,” in which the dancers of Braveman irr egularly illuminate one another with flashlights, tumbles into farce graduated from the Department of Dance at Hansung University and is an independent choreographer with Braveman Company, which he formed with Minsoo Jung. He won the Grand Prize at the 2013 Conte mporary Dance Association Competition, the 2014 Korea International Contemporary Dance Competition Gold Prize, and the 2014 Greece Hellas International Dance Competition. As a choreographer, he won the 2017 MODAFE Sparkplace Awards, SCF Awards (Young Author, Solo & Duet) with his debut work <Uninhabited Island>. Major stages and festivals invited his choreography in Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech Eastern Europe, Israel, and the United States. It was produced and exhibited at the Seoul Dance Film Festival.
Dance Troupe Brave ManFounded in 2017 by choreographer Jung Jae-woo, the dance company Braveman aims to produce honest, familiar, and experimental content about society andhumans through collaboration with various genres based on modern dance
Project
  • This is not me
    (Ce n’est pas moi)
    This project, which started as a collaboration
    with Haegeum player Kim Hyeon-hee,
    was again shown as one of the series of online concerts
    planned by the Lotte Concert Hall
    and was interpreted by Jeong Jae-woo.
    This work does not complete its existence as a performance
    but does exist overall in the entire process of making it
    and even when the show is over.
    We are working on a movie (+) performance version
    with director Heo Chul-Nyeong.
    < Ce n’est pas moi >
    by Hyo Jee Kang, Hyun-Hee Kim interpretation
  • Butterfly II
    나비 Butterfly II Conceptual Transformation Improvisation (2018.9.14)
    Piano improvisation by Hyo Jee Kang / Video editing and art installation by Hyo Jee Kang     The image of the butterfly connects the poem Mirror
    by the Korean poet Yi Sang (September 14, 1910 – April 17, 1937)
    with one of the victims who drowned in the sinking of the
    South Korean vessel Sewol that took the lives of more than 200
    high school students on April 16, 2014. The work also “mirrors” and
    reflects the history of Jeju Island and the artist’s personal memories.
    This is the fifth such transformation of this poem into music
    by Hyo Jee Kang and is part of her conceptual transformation
    series, in which she explores transformations from and to texts,
    notes, scores, images, she transforms and expresses the process
    of repeated transformations into text, notes, sheet music,
    images, drawings, emotions, stage art, lighting, and voice
    in real-time again.
    < Butterfly II >
    by Hyo Jee Kang
  • Notes from underground
    The title is from a novel by Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostoevsky.
    The story revolves around a dark atmosphere in Saint Petersburg
    in the 19th century. It is the story of a man who used to be a civil
    servant who imprisoned himself in a basement.
    There is no adventure or drama, but unstoppable events
    happen every second in his head and brain. As a masochist
    and puritan, he is confronted with the opposite of reality
    every time. His goddess is just like a virgin in pregnancy.
    Broken and betrayed. Hyo Jee Kang wanted to express
    this contradiction, the core of this work. He wanders,
    is mistreated, is sensitive, and eventually disappears.
    Hyo Jee Kang performed in Adishakti, India, with the advice
    of art directorVinay Kumar.
    < Notes from Underground >
    by Hyo Jee Kang
  • Inter-space (Flying in Water)
    Dramaturgy and Performance by Hyo Jee Kang / Wearable Art and Installation by Bo Choi
    Visual-Audio Art by Damian Marhurlets / Movement Advise by Hsiao-Tzu Tien     Inter-space presents a spiritual atmosphere
    from the passage of time; the past, present, and the future.
    Its spirituality is amplified by ritualistic way of performances.
    Aesthetics meets theology as we call for the ancient spirit
    that will elevate the souls of our world. With the surreal
    ambiguity, extremity, and repetitiveness of the landscape
    that Inter-space portrays, the signs of the contemporary world
    are evident. It is a topology within which life and death
    are connected via transmigration. It is a cartographic adventure
    that navigates through the turbulent waters of the time and
    space that the contemporary subjects dwell.