We live in relation to others — to people, and beyond them to plants and animals and environments, to materials and technologies, to artificial intelligence and data. The same holds for Bucheon, a city that takes shape as its old center and new town, its long-settled neighborhoods and newly built districts, come together into a single whole.

Warm Noise, Distant Stillness looks at this coexistence through the lens of symbiosis. To live symbiotically is not to become the same; it is to enter into relation and live together while each remains itself.

Seven participating artists examine these many relations through their own eyes, across two distinct media: media art and installation.

Working with sound and light, movement and response, the media artworks give rise to a warm noise — the sound of different beings meeting and answering one another. The installations, settled into the space, hold quietly continuing relations as a distant stillness, carried in the traces of matter and time.

Symbiosis may not be a matter of some far-off future, but a way of relating already underway in our lives. Between noise and stillness, one may sense a world being made as different beings meet and connect.

(This English text was translated from the Korean original with the assistance of AI.)