Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf

Face

The audiovisual project Face by Suhyun Park and Yuni Hwang, a student of the Art Academy Düsseldorf, use artistic means to critically question the concept of race.

What is race? How do we categorize ourselves through this? Can we categorize people’s faces with our eyes? Or with our ears? How do people feel when they hear a foreign language? The poem about faces, about race and fear is recited in an imaginary language. This imaginary language is a collage of various real languages. We cannot understand this language, but somehow it is not foreign either. What is it like when strangeness and familiarity are present at the same time? Does it make people afraid?

Idea, text, voice collage, sound: Suhyun Park
Idea, text, video: Yuni Hwang

Face was created as an exam project for the Music and Text major at the Institute for Music and Media of the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. Marc Matter supervised the project work.