This video presents an excerpt of the performance by Yong Min Cho accompanied by virtuoso musicians Shin Nal Sae (‘haegeum’, two-stringed vertical fiddle) and Choi Seong Moo (janggu, percussions), specifically created for Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Min Cho’s exploration of the interaction between colour, movement and space began in 2014 at San Giorgio with the performance entitled ‘The Bridging Colours: White’.
Conceived by Yong Min Cho, ‘The Bridging Colours’ is an artistic project aimed at combining Eastern and Western elements in original forms. After white, this year the featured colour is blue, the third of the five traditional Korean colours (white, black, blue, red and yellow). In Korea, each colour has its own particular symbology, in turn related to the five directions, the elements and moods. Blue is associated with the East, wood, Spring, a bitter taste, and happiness and hope for a rebirth. ‘The Bridging Colours: Blue’ was conceived as an evocation of a ritual in four stages, in which the musicians perform traditional Korean music for the dance that evokes the calling of the spirits, the blessing of the place (‘Jang’ 장, in Korean, a complex and polysemic concept), transcendence from suffering, and purification of the souls.
The video presents an excerpt from the final part of the performance, evoking a ritual of purification, intended to cleanse and unravel all the mixed-up woes and worries of this world. This part is called ‘Ssisgim’ in the program notes prepared by Yong Min Cho: ‘Purification for every person, spirit, and soul gathered in this place’.

Yong Min Cho (Art director, choreographer and dancer); Shin Nal Sae, haegeum; Choi Sung Moo, janggu, bug and jing; Chung An (costumes); Tae Sup Lee (design).

This event was organized by the Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, in cooperation with Arts Council Korea, A + M (Asia Movement).

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia, 14 November 2019
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Video: Marco Luzu (Università di Cagliari); cameras: Marco Lutzu, with Carlo Mezzalira and Costantino Vecchi (IISMC)

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