As part of her project I Do Nine-Tailed Fox, Sojung Jun is taking part in Performa in New York on Sunday 16 November. Her performance takes the shape of an opera in nine nonlinear chapters, set in a speculative future of 2075. Guided by a ‘sound archaeologist’ who excavates and reassembles lost voices and times, the work is animated by nine musicians – pansori singer, soprano, saenghwang, North Korean gayageum, theremin, cello, percussion, dombra, and conductor – who together weave an improvised soundscape. While the performance is anchored in the Korean narrative form of pansori, which entwines song, speech, and percussion, Jun extends its sonic texture with instruments that move across and beyond Korean heritage.

The soundscape will interplay with Jun’s film I Do Nine-Tailed Fox which deploys AI to intervene in every scenic transition. These transitions, like the tricks of the shape-shifting nine-tailed fox, flow across time while drawing on a vast range of cinematic techniques. What emerges from these shifting passages is not simply the reverb of recycled images, but the possibility of untold stories that persist in the gaps of history and migration.

For more details of the performance and to book tickets go to Performa’s website here

To find out more about the project you can watch an interview with Sojung Jun here

Sojung Jun’s I Do Nine-Tailed Fox is exhibited at The Showroom until 31 January 2026.