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We, We Wish — Vol.1
The Tutelar Guardian of Forgotten Tales
A contemporary ritual-media work developed from a dawn ritual performed and filmed at Seonbawi Rock in Seoul on January 1, 2023.
RITUAL MEDIA ARTIST
SOOJIN
PRAY
Soojin Pray is a ritual media artist exploring invisible relations between body, place, ancestral memory, and digital technology.
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WE, WE WISH
We, We Wish — Vol.1
The Tutelar Guardian of Forgotten Tales
〈설령 잊혀지더라도 지켜야 할 것을 지키는 자〉
A contemporary ritual-media work developed from an artist-led dawn ritual at Seonbawi Rock in Seoul. Through mask, movement, breath, sound, and digital image, the work asks how embodied cultural memory can persist without being reduced to spectacle or a fixed image of tradition.
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SELECTED WORKS
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Healing Tide
A site-responsive ritual performance cycle that composes temporary fields of collective attention through sound, movement, breath, and place.
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Digital Forest Meditation Odyssey
A shared immersive environment combining projected forest imagery, environmental sound, guided attention, live sound and the participants’ return to physical space.
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GOYO Meditation Planet
An archived XR research project exploring how virtual and physical space might form one continuous field of embodied attention.
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ARTIST POSITION
The body is not only a performer’s instrument, but a living archive of cultural memory, ritual knowledge, and invisible relations.
BODY — PLACE — MEMORY — TECHNOLOGY
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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Circle Part.1
Selected; forthcoming 19 August–6 September · CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
Healing Tide
2025 Culture Month Seogwipo, Jaguri Park, Seogwipo, Jeju
Digital Forest Meditation Odyssey
Suji Library VR·AR Experience Hall, Yongin
The Tutelar Guardian of Forgotten Tales
Art Korea Lab Media Wall, Seoul
The Tutelar Guardian of Forgotten Tales
10 Years After Ground, Gwangju
Digital Forest Meditation Odyssey
Art Korea Lab D-Showroom, Seoul
Digital Forest Meditation Odyssey
Jeonju University X-ValueUp Space, Jeonju
GOYO Meditation Planet
NewImages Festival XR Market / Korea Focus, Paris