
INSANITY
광기
Seyeong Yoon
South Korea
2023
Video art
Short Film
general information
edition
7th ECRÃ Festival
date and
time
festivalecra.com
06/07 - 09/17
Throughout the Online Stage
duration in min
debut
International Premiere
classification
indicative
16 years / Not recommended for children under sixteen years old / Not recommended for children under sixteen years old
content
This film/video contains several sequences with imagery and sustained flashing lights that may affect those who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or have other photosensitivities.
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Seyeong Yoon
Seyeong Yoon is a video artist based in Seoul and London, exploring methods of change and breaking existing social, cultural and political paradigms, as well as investigating the essence of [human] being/human existence.
Seyeong Yoon was born and raised in the small town of Gwacheon, South Korea, home to the original National Museum of Modern Contemporary Art (previously Seoul location), where Yoon first encountered video artist Nam June Paik and the MMCA commissioned work ‘Dadaiksun’. After starting out as an animator/vfx artist in San Francisco, Yoon entered the commercial video industry as a director and video editor in 2014, working with clients such as Google, NBA Style, ELLE, Arabian Ranches Golf Club, Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency and more. In 2017, he moved to London to attend UAL (University of the Arts London) and immersed himself in the London fashion scene, collaborating with designers from Central Saint Martin (CSM) and the London College of Fashion (LCF) on experimental fashion films. For his senior thesis, he studied the works of Fluxus, an avant-garde art movement from the 1960s in Germany and New York.
From there, he began to seriously pursue video art and returned to Seoul in 2019 when he was selected as the lead video artist for ARTE, a Seoul-based artist collective with a community venue sponsored by NAVER and HIRO MASUMOTO, which was later disbanded due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In Seoul, he collaborated with notable South Korean brands and venues such as IISE, Seoul Community Radio, and Vans Korea, etc. Most recently, he collaborated with South Korean electronic music producer Glam Gould, creating a visual accompaniment to the song ‘The Eclipse’ from Glam Gould’s latest album, ‘Wave I Don’t Own’, marking the beginning of their ongoing collaboration. For the video piece, Yoon manipulated live-action footage of the Donghae Sea currents through After Effects to create a deep-contrast, highly saturated visual that evokes destruction, deconstruction and the grotesque as is characteristic of his video work.
In 2022, Yoon debuted as a video artist at Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro) MAM (CINEMATECA DO MAM-RJ) Rio, Brazil, with his video art work officially selected by Festival ECRÃ, and participated in a group exhibition at Punto Blu in Seoul, South Korea, participated in a group exhibition at Lake Gallery, Southwarkpark Galleries, London, UK, and had a screening session with the brand KOYO, New York, USA. In addition, his work ""Video-Music Jamming"" Episode 1: Void is archived/presented by THE STREAM, Korean Video Art Archive.

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