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video, 17 min
(edition of 3, audio component: yes, surround audio system required)
How to spell my name is a video project involving interviews on the subject matter of name. Twelve people with different occupations and cultural backgrounds including a translator, philosopher, software programmer, physician, toddler, educator, actress, etc., talk about their names and identities. A translator engages the subject matter in a linguistic approach, a philosopher discusses naming and a rock-n-roll singer reveals his stage name as his persona.
The story weaves in the structure of stream of consciousness. All the shared experiences of their names by these individuals who appear to have nothing in common emerge as a collective experience. These interviews were taped during a three year time period in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Texas.
How to spell my name is designed to be played with a surround stereo audio system for the scenes with more than one person speaking at a time. Each person speaks from either left or right side of the speaker.
exhibition view at the Austin Museum of Art
exhibition view at the Chelsea Art Museum, New York
excerpts from How to Spell My Name
YOON CHO, excerpt 1 from How to spell my name, ©2007, video on dvd, 17 min, edition of 3
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YOON CHO, excerpt 2 from How to spell my name, ©2007, video on dvd, 17 min, edition of 3