KIM HYUNZOO
South Korea
IG: @poem0press

project SAL(alive)
2022
project SAL’s music album & book art, burnt birch wood, korean traditional paper, traditional silk, cassette tape, silk screen print
5.31x7in

Artist Statement

The regular album of project SAL(alive), which discovers and plays the language of objects and realizes it as sound art, was planned as an ‘artist book’. We compiled the sound source, content, and reviews together with the images.

project SAL(alive) plays with the movements, emotions, and sensations of beings attached to the framework of the world. In particular, it remembers the wounds and calls out their new values. Broken instruments, broken objects, injured tree branches, and internally injured bodies are also conveyors of stories. The theme of ‘anxiety’ was expressed through books and music.

The main text consists of images of the members’ bodies engraved and symbolized as ‘tapdol(stone tower)’ and text about the song, and was printed with silk screen. The cover was finished by burning a ‘memorial tablet’ made of burnt birch wood and wrapping it in traditional silk with a ‘cassette tape.’