Off To Do Showery Snap Shot
Dimension varied, video and light installation
2003
Miyoung Song
Born and raised in Korea, Miyoung Song received a BFA in sculpture in
1989 from Hong-ik University, Seoul. After graduation, she exhibited several
site-specific sculptures and installations, eventually winning second
place in a competition sponsored by the Korean Central Daily News for
her mixed-medium sculpture, Canopy Bed. In 1991 she moved to the United
States to study computer graphics and photography in Seattle, and put
together her first US show. Song later attended Pratt Institute where
she received an MFA in sculpture and an MS in art history. Over the last
13 years as a sculptor and multi-media installation artist, she has delved
into questions about intimacy, gender, technology, class and race. Song’s
installations meditate on the ambiguous nature of “knowledge”
given the commonly misguided desire people have for closure and permanence.
She uses various techniques of layering as a metaphor for her unyielding
view of real-world complexities. She overlaps tangible and virtual realities
in a mediated space to reproduce the complicated connections between the
sentimental (personal) past and the experiential (communal) present. In
October 2002, her controversial interactive video installation, “Shoot
Me I: After You Shoot?” received international media attention,
including features on NY1 and Fox5 TV channels, and articles in the New
York Sun, New York Post, and News Day. She lives and works in New York.