Artist talk with Koh Juen
on “Necessary Withdrawal: From stage to solitude"
30.10.2025 Artist talk with Koh Juen
on “Necessary Withdrawal: From stage to solitude"
at 10–11.30 on Zoom (request link via info@taidekoulumaa.fi)
Koh Juen is a (conceptual) sound artist, composer, and writer. She is a Taoist and Hermetic practitioner, with experience in psychological counseling and feminist education.
Her research examines gendered differences in the history of sound practice and approaches sonic expression as an “infinite game” that deterritorialized social and spatial hierarchies while reshaping relations between self, other, and environment.Her practice liberates sound from secondary status, employing synesthetic composition, carefully crafted synthetic textures, and neoclassical strategies to foreground spatial and narrative interpretation while engaging embodied phenomena. Performances often adopt a de-authorship approach that disrupts the audience-performer binary, seeking to redirect audiences’ attention from external spectacle to the immanent transformations engendered by sound.
She regards sound as an intellectual instrument capable of expanding perception, affect, and understanding beyond the collective subconscious.
Image credit: Koh Juen
