text by Sung Hwan Kim

a live performance at Ilmin Museum in Seoul, 2013

featuring a quote from Charles Ives' Symphony No. 2

I want my children to be independent
My workers work for me
My surroundings will serve me
Or my surroundings will serve the people Whom my idea wants properly served
When my body starts to operate the way I planned
When my body starts to realize my idea When my body starts to operate the way
I planned
When my body moves to realize just one
idea
I start to think and my body starts to feel Pain
Discomfort
Shame
That my body moves not the way I want it to move
now
But the way that I wanted it to move five minutes ago
That my mouth speaks a speech not what I want it to speak
now
But the way I wanted it to speak a while ago
각주구검 [ gak jju gu geom ] It’s not what I want

각주구검 [gak-jju-gu-geom] my body moves [live at 일민 미술관 Seoul]

David Michael DiGregorio is a composer and musician based in New York and Honolulu. His background includes classical and improvised technique on the piano, diverse vocal methods, performance with a gospel choir, electro-acoustic composition, and experimental pop construction.

His discography features albums IN KOREAN WILDS AND VILLAGES (as dogr, 2009), produced by Andi Toma and published by Sonig Records; and two Bayerischer-Rundfunk-2 broadcast commissions with Sung Hwan Kim, HOWL BOWEL OWL (2013) and ONE FROM IN THE ROOM (2010, for which the two won the Karl-
Sczuka-Förderpreis).  

His major concerts include Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan; New Museum, New York; Barakat Gallery, Ilmin Museum, and Insa Art Space, Seoul; De Nieuwe Kraakgeluiden and STEIM, Amsterdam; IFFR, Rotterdam; Huis aan de Werf and BAK, Utrecht; the Images Festival, Toronto; Project Arts Centre, Dublin; etablissement d’en face, Brussels. Group concerts include MoMA PS1 and Danspace Project, New York.

Group exhibitions include Small at Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten—d’Eendt, Amsterdam, 2006; BRILLIANT COLLABORATORS at Ilmin Museum, Seoul, 2013; New Habits, CASCO, Utrecht, 2014; and THE SHADOW OF THE BODY OF THE COACHMAN, Kunstsaele, Berlin, 2016. His film, COVER, has been exhibited for the 2022 collection show at Nam June Paik Art Center, Korea. His composition was included in Ari Benjamin Meyers’ Kunsthalle for Music Ensemble at Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly Witte de With), Rotterdam, 2018.

DiGregorio has collaborated since 2006 with Sung Hwan Kim, initially through development of the IN THE ROOM series. Later works include HAIR IS A PIECE OF HEAD, exhibited at the Busan Biennale 2022 and the Hawaiʻi Triennial 2022; the Venice-Biennale-commissioned film LOVE BEFORE BOND, 2017; composition and performance in the operatic experiment 피나는 노력으로 한 [A WOMAN WHOSE HEAD CAME OUT BEFORE HER NAME] (2015), commissioned for the Asian-Arts-Theatre, Gwangju; music for the Tate-Modern-commissioned 2012 film TEMPER CLAY, which has also been shown in an extended installation version at Kim’s solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2021. DiGregorio also has collaborated with artists Danai Anesiadou, Rosa Barba, Byungjun Kwon, Martín Lanz Landázuri, Otobong Nkanga, Jewyo Rhii, and Haegue Yang.

http://dogr.org; ig: @dogr_music

각주구검 [gak-jju-gu-geom] my body moves [live at 일민 미술관 Seoul]

David Michael DiGregorio (dogr)