Sensory Body Landscape is part of my ongoing research project ‘Healing & Creation’ that is initiated since 2012. 

Exploring co-relations between human & nature, learning from ancient wisdom and embody the essential teachings in our contemporary body for artistic process and healing practice.

In 2021, the research was invited to Faberllull residency in Olot, Spain where I worked closely in nature of Catalonia. I collaborated with a local forest guide/teacher Laia Ilongueres. We explored specific locations in relation to 5 elements (Oriental medicine context) in order to embody the water, earth and fire wisdom. 

In the end of the research, we also offered open workshops for the public as well as a group of healthcare practitioners. The outcome is registered as a video work by Carles Lopez (Olot based film maker).

-Work: Ko Jihae
-Video: Mandala video/ Carles Lopez
-Sound: Healing vibration 

+Supported by Medicine body studio, Faberllull & L.Ilongueres.

“Human body is a miniature of nature, made out of five elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether. These elements are always living within us, to regenerate and nourish us in order to maintain life.” -Oriental Medicine

Sensorial Body Phenomenal Space

Leeum Samsung Museum of Art
Olafur Eliasson Exhibition’Parliament of Possibilities’
Workshop Performance ‘Sensorial Body/Phenomenal Space’

Within the darkened space of the Black Box, multiple spotlights illuminate a circular curtain of fine mist, creating shimmering rainbows in the air. Choreographers and dancers are drawn to this work that is also a space, Olafur Eliasson’s Rainbow assembly, exploring and adding another layer of liveliness to it. Some of them also invite audience participation, giving you a chance to be included in an artistic experience created by bodily movements.

This program, Sensorial Body and Phenomenological Space, is a performance workshop led by Amsterdam-based choreographers Jihae Ko and Kay Patru. The work focuses on expressing  our internal awareness derived from perception and sensation, into movements. It is designed for participants to communicate with each other what they feel and think about Rainbow assembly through bodily movements caused by interactions between body and space.

+Collaboration choreography & teaching by Jihae. Ko & Kay Patru +Supported by Leeum, Samsung museum of contemporary art in Seoul.