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Korean Traditional Artist
& Sound–Visual Artist

PARKHYOJINART

Art Director
& Creative Producer


About

Scattering Mouth Sounds – How can we meet each other (2023)

우리는 서로 어떻게 만날 수 있을까?

How can we connect with each other?

      Hyo-jin Park is a Korean Traditional Artist and a Multidisciplinary Creative whose work focuses on sound and visual arts, expertise encompasses planning, directing, and production. Exploring “The Art of Connection” based on the question, “How can we connect with each other?”, she discovers points where different times, cultures, and sensibilities intersect.

      She focuses on the traces of existence, contemplating humanity’s inherent value and domain, as well as the relationships and influences between people. Ultimately, she aims to realize human-to-human connection into a artistic experience through her work.

      Hyo-jin Park practices art with a slow and thoughtful approach, allowing both herself and the audience to gradually experience connection. She believes in the power of artistic experience and finds the greatest joy in moments when a meaningful ‘connection‘ is established with the audience.


Key Character

BABO


Artist Statement

I need your hands (2025)

예술과 일상을, 사람과 사람을 연결하는
관계의 예술’에 대한 기록.

Records of Hyo-jin Park’s Art of Connection
bridging art and life, and connect people to people.


Biograph

      Hyo-Jin Park started Gayageum at the age of 10. She gradually developed a deep interest in the comprehensive traditional arts, and her focus expanded to include communal customs, folk beliefs, and rituals such as Dure(collective work) and Jangseung (totem pole).These contextual elements and aspects of Korean traditional culture are core components reflected across of her work.

      Her debut work, 《Solo Project 1: Sak-im》 (2016, Grand Prize at the New Korean Traditional Music Experimental Stage), delicately explored inner human emotions within relationships and creatively combined traditional performing arts including the Gayageum (zither) and Yanggeum (dulcimer), Seodo folk songs, Gagok (classical Korean singing), and Eunnyul Mask Dance. It was praised for offering a distinct performance and original experience through the innovative application of tradition.

      Over six subsequent series and a total of 50 performances, she conveyed messages related to communal conflicts while continuing to experiment across form, genre, and expressive boundaries.Notably, 《Co-existence》 (2022) drew attention for its site-specific performance and audience participation, strengthening the sense of community identity.

      Her solo exhibition, 《Mouth Sounds》(2023), is based on her personal experiences with the traditional transmission methods of Korean traditional arts—passed down by mouth and learned by heart.《The Grandma’s Call》, 《About needs》, and 《Connection》, all reflect upon the human essence. These pieces realized her unique performance art form ‘multimedia one-man play’, which proposes a new performance aesthetic through the deconstruction and reassembly of traditional art.

      Her full-length albums, for which she wrote, composed, and produced all the music herself, include 《Mindfulness 1-TIME & 2-SanJo》 (2021), which compiles music she composed starting in 2011. 《Korean Classical Music of Gayageum and Yanggeum》 (2024), which explores the freedom of traditional music mediated through the concept of breath. and 《人 (IN)》 (2025), which sings about the temperature of human relationships through the reconstruction of traditional sounds.

      Hyo-jin Park enhance the narrative structure of her works and expands the sensory dimensions through directing art films and producing album books, creating immersive artistic experiences that allows the audience. Furthermore, driven by her exploration into the possibilities of the instrument itself, she developed and produced the 13-string Sanjo Gayageum (2021).

      In addition, she led performances and workshops for local audiences in Spain, Los Angeles, and Japan, as well as participated in international residencies such as the Hwaeom Residency (2017) and the Mongolian Nomadic Residency (2018), she continues to engage in artistic exchanges and collaborations across various cultures,

      She has consistently sought the most appropriate expressions and methods to convey the themes and narratives of her work through her own individuality and creative perspective. Across all these activities, traditional, contemporary, and local elements harmoniously intertwine, reflecting Korean sensibilities, rhythm, and emotion. and consistently reveals a traditional cultural aesthetic that is collaborative, flexible, multi-layered, and holistic.

      Her individual artistic pursuits, Hyo-Jin Park serves as the director of Parkhyoijnart, she engages in multifaceted activities to realize ‘The Art of Connection.’ At the same time, she actively contributes the preservation, inheritance, and modern transmission of traditional arts through the deep practice of her craft, holding positions such as: a Master of Eunyul Talchum (National Intangible Cultural Heritage, Mask dance) and Gagok (National Intangible Cultural Heritage, classical Korean singing), Director of the Folk Music Division of the Incheon Gugak Association.


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