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In July and August, the SODAS 2123 A-I-R Programme is collaborating with the Contemporary City Festival AUDRA. This year’s selected resident, chosen through an open call, is Hyeji Nam, an artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores the intersections of sound, performance, and technology.
Hyeji Nam (b. 1993, Seoul) is an artist, musician, and researcher based in Vienna. Merging performance, sound, and installation, she rewires cultural memory through queer, embodied interventions that draw from transcultural mythologies. Her work employs voice-processing, AI-generated sound, and gesture-responsive interfaces to leak between analogue and algorithmic realities. Nam’s practice interlaces literature, sexuality, social taboos, and visibility politics to question who tells which stories—and how. Her works have been presented at the Gwangju Biennale, CTM Festival, mumok and Belvedere 21 in Vienna, often creating new atmospheric spaces that evoke presence, vulnerability, and speculative transformation.
During the residency at SODAS 2123, Hyeji Nam will be working on her piece MANSHIN, a contemporary reimagining of the Korean shamanic ritual Gut, which she will present at festival AUDRA in Kaunas. Blurring the line between performance and installation, the piece invites audiences into a shared trance space shaped by movement, voice, and presence. Rooted in ancient cosmology, MANSHIN unfolds as a sensorial rite for collective transformation.
The activities of the AUDRA Contemporary City Festival are supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
SODAS 2123 is supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality.