| | How does a body without “normal” language communicate with others? How does the audience share an immersive experience and mingle with the artwork? How are the transformative states of perception embodied in an intermedia approach?
Metamorphosis is a site-specific video installation with ambisonic sound. Along with Kang's life-long interest in "aliens" who do not have a communication method that would work in the boundary of normative normality, her videos often show a body transmitting images or sounds without human vocal organs. In Metamorphosis, the body in the video, which is incorporeal, gives an illusion of materialistic three-dimensional existence on top of a screen made of salt on the floor. The body transforms into sound spinning around in the space, which physically embraces the audience. The flat image imitating the real world becomes sound, which seems illusory but actually has more physical presence that touches the audience.
Metamorphosis is composed of video projection on a powder screen on the floor and spiral sound movement in a dark room. The video is shot from a bird’s-eye angle, which gives an illusion of a space below the floor. The illusion is enhanced by the top down projection angle. The powder screen made of salt and sugar also adds three-dimensional depth to the video illusion. The sculpted piles of powder tangle with the participant’s perception between the real and the virtual. With ambisonic sound set up using SuperCollider and 12 loud speakers, the composed sound spins around on the surface of a sound sphere creating a spatial soundscape.
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