Art Sonje Center presents 2mc1dj: Event Volume 3, an exhibition by the collective 2mc1dj, on view in the Art Hall from October 27 to December 6, 2026. Created collaboratively by Heecheon Kim, Haryung Lee, and Seungtaek Hong, Event Volume 3 (2026) is an approximately 96-minute sound play described as a “film without a screen.” Set in Waits, a fictional underground club, the work consists of three interconnected episodes that unfold through dialogue, music, ambient sounds, and foley effects. Seated in the Art Hall, audiences face an empty screen, with light intermittently illuminating the room. Live phone calls from people invited by the artists also enter the play during screenings.

Without projected images or written text, yet driven by characters and dialogue, Event Volume 3 moves between the conventions of visual art, literature, and music without belonging entirely to any one of them.

A “Film Without a Screen”: A Theater Experienced Through Sound
For this exhibition, the Art Hall becomes a theater for a film told entirely through sound. While the screen remains blank, elements normally associated with a film’s soundtrack—dialogue, music, ambient noise, and foley effects—carry the narrative. Sound is delivered through the hall’s 5.1-channel system and additional speakers.

“When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.”
— Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematograph (2016, p. 29)

Rather than removing the screen altogether, the artists leave it empty, allowing intermittent light to draw attention to the space while the narrative unfolds through sound. For the three artists, whose practices span moving image, music, and literature, the work is less about combining genres than exploring what happens when the conventions of one medium are pushed toward those of another.

Three Events at the Club Waits
The three sound plays share a common setting: a contemporary underground club and the events surrounding performances held there. Within this setting, each episode follows its own narrative. Inside the club, music is so loud that conversation becomes almost impossible, separating it from the world outside. The plays draw on a scene in which audience members often become performers, and performers become organizers. Sounds recorded at actual underground club performances in Seoul are interwoven with studio recordings, bringing real environments into the fictional narratives.

In Heecheon Kim’s Know-nothing Yujin, Yujin sits behind the wheel of a battered silver Mercedes. In the back seat, Jihwan and Hongseok talk like gangsters preparing for a job, while Yujin’s phone rings incessantly. Jihwan snaps, “Turn your fucking phone off.” A voicemail reaches Yujin’s muffled left ear, with the caller proposing an album leak. Unsure of what is going on, Yujin decides he might as well do as he pleases. After all, he is the one behind the wheel. To create the sound of a conventional commercial film without its images, Kim first filmed every scene before editing the audio into the finished play.

In Haryung Lee’s 1000percent Soul, the protagonist Kyu practices whistling. Kyu works in a basement office accessible through a hidden corridor at Waits and another flight of stairs leading down. Each night, Kyu slips behind the club’s dance floor and heads home in the morning, just as the staff are closing the club. A single melody plays continuously in Kyu’s mind, which the audience can also hear. Lee conceived the episode as one continuous performance, or sound mix.

In Seungtaek Hong’s Under One Umbrella, Dongheon goes to see a performance by the visiting DJ X on a rainy day, slips in the restroom, and loses consciousness. He wakes in an unfamiliar place: an ordinary city filled with traffic lights and subway noise. There, he meets Junho, who introduces himself as an old friend. Dongheon follows Junho to the club Waits, where they form a band called come. On the day of their long-awaited performance, however, Dongheon, the vocalist, fails to appear. Instead, an audience member takes the stage, and their voice and appearance begin to change in strange ways. In this world constructed through sound, where bodies remain unseen, the boundary between “I” and “you” begins to blur. The episode raises questions about the personal and the impersonal, and the “soul” that might connect them.

Incoming Calls: Voices from Outside the Play
Central to 2mc1dj’s practice is the idea of “openness”: the possibility of allowing reality outside a fictional work to enter it. In Event Volume 3, this takes the form of live phone calls incorporated into an otherwise prerecorded play. Friends, family members, and colleagues who have received a phone number and guidelines from 2mc1dj, as well as the artists themselves, may call during screenings. Callers might read assigned lines, recite poems they have written, recount dreams from the previous night, or simply let the sounds of their surroundings be heard.

The work uses a custom real-time audio interface that responds to incoming calls and feeds them directly into the play. These calls may overlap with the recording or briefly interrupt it, creating moments when the fictional narrative and the present moment unexpectedly intersect. Visitors cannot call in themselves, and even the artists do not know in advance which screening will receive a call or when it might arrive.

A complimentary zine containing excerpts from the scripts, along with texts and images whose connections to the plays remain ambiguous, is available in the exhibition space. It allows visitors to take away fragments of the scenes they have experienced through sound. The Art Hall will also host a live radio talk show during the exhibition, with the three artists and a moderator speaking through sound alone, without appearing on stage.

About the Artist
2mc1dj (since 2025)
2mc1dj is a collective of three artists: Heecheon Kim, Haryung Lee and Seungtaek Hong. Working both inside and outside the field of art, they focus respectively on moving image, music and literature, and share an interest in creating narratives where these three fields meet. Event Volume 3 is 2mc1dj’s first collaborative work.

Heecheon Kim (b. 1989, Gwangju)
Artist based in Seoul. Kim has held solo exhibitions at Seo-Seoul Museum of Art (2026, Seoul), l’Atelier Hermès (2024, Seoul), The HENI Project Space at Hayward Gallery (2023, London) and Art Sonje Center (2019, Seoul), and has taken part in exhibitions at venues including Leeum Museum of Art (2024, Seoul) and Centre Pompidou-Metz (2023, Metz).

Haryung Lee (b. 2000, Daegu)
Artist and musician based in Seoul. Lee has taken part in exhibitions including SA-I Festival (ARTSITE SOJE, 2026, Daejeon) and Echo Chamber (Shower, 2025, Seoul), and has made music for projects including Night Beast Troop (Windmill, 2025, Seoul / Seo-Seoul Museum of Art, 2026, Seoul) and Studies (l’Atelier Hermès, 2024, Seoul). Lee has co-organized offsite music event a 2-day gig (Suchi, 2024, Seoul), forum Even If This Is Neither Popular nor Serious, at Least It Is Sensational. (Powerplant, Seoul National University, 2023, Seoul) and club event series Sorrow Club.

Seungtaek Hong (b. 1996, Kentucky)
Artist and writer based in Seoul. Hong has held the solo exhibition good night my star (pie, 2024, Seoul) and created the performance and exhibition Seogyo Art Experiment Center (Seogyo Art Experiment Center, 2021, Seoul). Hong is the author of books including DDT (lang, 2025) and Prophecy (lang, 2024).

Event Volume 3 (FM)
Date: Wed, November 25, 2026
Venue: Art Hall, Art Sonje Center
Alongside the exhibition, 2mc1dj will present Event Volume 3 (FM) (working title), a late-night radio program featuring the three members of the collective in conversation with a radio host. Broadcast through the speakers in the Art Hall, the program invites audiences to submit questions and comments via phone or text message. The broadcast will conclude with a recording by the band come, featured in Seungtaek Hong’s sound play Under One Umbrella.