Mint Park – Latent Amongst the Air

Sonic Acts Podcast

Latent Amongst the Air by Mint Park 27 October 2022 – OT301, Amsterdam, The Netherlands In her opening presentation and performance for Night Air: Breathing with Clouds, sound and new media artist Mint Park expands on her fascination with drift, noise and dissipation, discusses the making of her Sonic Acts commission 'Turbulence Studies: Latent Amongst the Air', and considers the dynamic ways we might make our atmospheres visible. Born in Seoul, Mint Park is currently based in Amsterdam. Working at the intersection of music, technology, science and art, her audio-visual practice focuses on the experience of the inter-weaving physical environment and virtual spaces with immersive sound, light, and spatial apparatuses. Besides her own projects, she runs Unheard Records, a label focused on femme, minority, queer and under-represented experimental artists. Night Air: Breathing with Clouds invited us to inhale deeply, sensing the fluctuations and formation processes of the atmosphere around us. The programme featured a presentation and performance by Park, a live film score performance with Sébastien Robert, a cloud tasting with artist Hannah Mevis and a screening of Ho Tzu Nyen's film 'The Cloud of Unknowing'. The evening culminated at high altitude and low pressure, with DJ sets from Emiranda, Rapala700, Bugasmurf and DJ G2G. NIGHT AIR Night Air is a series of Sonic Acts events that aim to make pollution visible by bringing forth the various side-effects of modernity: from exploitation of people and resources to perpetual inequalities brought about by the destruction of the environment and common land – in other words, capitalist practices that shape both our environment and human-nonhuman relations. More information about Breathing with Clouds can be found at: https://sonicacts.com/archive/night-air-breathing-with-clouds CREDITS Curation & production: Sonic Acts Design: Toni Brell https://tonibrell.de Video editing: Roman Ermolaev Sound mastering: Poul Sven de Haan http://faboem.nl