Title Island Child
Year 2025
Medium Triptych Screen Installation, 4-channel spatial audio
Sound Design Original Soundtrack & Ambient Auditory Elements
Location Blackbox Theater (North Hunter College Building)
Dimension, Duration 7 minutes 57 seconds loop
Sound, Memory, and the Diasporic Imagination
Island Child is an immersive audiovisual installation that reflects on memory, dreams, and cultural identity. Using experimental animation, projection mapping, and spatial sound, the work creates a space that feels like drifting between reality and memory.
Centered around traditional Korean lullabies and ocean imagery, the piece invites the audience to feel how sound carries memory across generations. Through ghostly visuals and layered audio—like my grandmother’s singing and ambient recordings—Island Child explores how deeply sound can shape identity and belonging.
The installation reimagines sound as a visual form, showing that memory is not fixed, but shifting—shared through emotion, rhythm, and time.