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RAINBOW LOOP:
TOWARD A SPECTRAL METHOD
DIEGO BEHNCKE ALLAN GARDNER JUNG HSU & SARA WUSOLLEE KIM NICK KLEIN MAKOTO OSHIRO OOLONGRADIO
무지개 고리:
스펙트럼적 사유를 향하여
디에고 벤케 앨런 가드너 룡 슈 & 사라 우 김솔이 닉 클라인 마코토 오시로 우롱라디오
RAINBOW LOOP:
TOWARD A SPECTRAL METHOD
The collaborative trio spoke about the urgency of actualizing their ideas within the canonical and underground art histories that inspired them. Ideas for starting a school in the lineage of Black Mountain College, CalArts, or The Bauhaus were floated. Key Sound, New Media, and technologically optimistic festivals like Ars Electronica—as well as a wide swath of artist-led exhibition spaces that fostered transitory and definition-evading practices—were spoken about and romanticized over, as was the possibility of residencies where artists could formulate work on a “clean slate”, leaving the exhibition open to being something that would have no pretense outside of its own process. In the end, the trio created work and coalesced a group of artists they admired, who engage the multiplicity of form, and who root collaboration and exchange as a basis for how they make art.
In a moment in time where art can often parody itself, bottlenecked as a static ritual of consumption and indifference, Rainbow Loop : Toward a Spectral Method calls for a positive disruption in the formatting and presuppositions of the phenomenology of the art experience. Diego Behncke and Sollee Kim employ large-scale sculptural installations: While Behncke utilizes ghosts and apparitions to explore notions of depersonalization through spatial and social relations, Kim deploys a hyper-personal narrative around her relationship to her cochlea, using modular sculptural forms that embrace the viewer through intimate arrangements of form and sound.
Allan Gardner and oolongradio both play on grounded art histories and the development of future histories within the exhibition. Gardner mines contemporary art history to evoke key figures of minimalism and imbues them with his personal narratives of Scottish folkloric themes. In parallel, oolongradio subverts the geographical, architectural, and functional notions of radio stations, redefining it as a sculpture and temporal disruptor of frequencies between Berlin, Germany, and Daejeon, Korea.
The aim of the project ambitiously challenges conventional exhibition formats that present artistic works as fixed, finite objects, confined to a specific moment in time. Such structures encourage the consumption of art as a completed product, neglecting the fluid and transformative nature of artistic practice. Traditional gallery and museum exhibitions often impose predefined parameters, limiting the potential for spontaneity, process-based creation, and evolving interpretations. In contrast, this project seeks to cultivate an open and dynamic space where artistic practice unfolds continuously, embracing iteration, adaptation, and dialogue.
Unlike other institutional exhibitions bound by market cycles and demands, this project foregrounds artist-led experimentation, enabling autonomous modes of expression. While each participating artist retains a distinct creative identity, the exhibition fosters collective creation alongside active reciprocal dialogue, where works interact, transform, and generate new meanings through shared engagement . This approach repositions the exhibition itself as a site of critical inquiry and artistic becoming.
The use of medial activation , architectural interventions, sound and sculptural repurposing, as well as geographical creates an endless variable loop, a “rainbow loop,” where the constant braiding of process-oriented creation defines total understanding, instead inviting the viewer to be in dialogue with an active framework and sit through the complexity of the artists’ decisions in total. While aiming high in its goals of positive corrosions, the exhibition is aware of the great canon of art history it wedges itself to participate inside of. In 2025, with massive shifts in social, economic, and globalizing standards of artistic practice constantly in flux and subject to precarity, the art makers here take a moment to squeeze out reflective catharsis. For now, if this lane for art in the city of Daejeon can be a starting point for new avenues of discussion, then perhaps it can be a model for spontaneous and ecstatic decency amongst people, far beyond the confines of the exhibition space.
Nick Klein, 2025
Diego Behncke is a Berlin-based artist whose work is realized through the frameworks of fictional systems, abstraction, and synthesis. Taking form through obfuscation operations involving installations, synthetic sound, film, and performances, his works appear as an abuse of conceptual and technical byproducts, a foregrounding of epistemic faults, and a strategic misdirection of ambiguity. He is especially interested in working through makeshift and diagonal approaches, skeptically examining standardized forms of aesthetic cognizance.
In live performances, he employs non-linear sound synthesis techniques by means of feedback and hybrid arrangements of machine listening, coupling analog electronic circuits with computational analysis arrangements in recursive manners; responding to the results, he acts as a regulator of the adaptive system and influences formal changes based on salient features of the process itself.
As part of his practice, he runs the experimental music label Prensa Manual.
He studied Composition and Aesthetics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and is currently completing a Master’s degree at the Universität der Künste Berlin. His work has been presented in Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, Chile, and is scheduled to appear in South Korea (August 2025). Recent activities include a residency at Spectral’s S.P.A.C.E. program for expanded cinema (Berlin), and a publication of his most recent electroacoustic works in the Japanese label Tokinogake. His work has been featured in publications including Neural, Tone Glow, and The Wire.
In live performances, he employs non-linear sound synthesis techniques by means of feedback and hybrid arrangements of machine listening, coupling analog electronic circuits with computational analysis arrangements in recursive manners; responding to the results, he acts as a regulator of the adaptive system and influences formal changes based on salient features of the process itself.
As part of his practice, he runs the experimental music label Prensa Manual.
He studied Composition and Aesthetics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and is currently completing a Master’s degree at the Universität der Künste Berlin. His work has been presented in Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, Chile, and is scheduled to appear in South Korea (August 2025). Recent activities include a residency at Spectral’s S.P.A.C.E. program for expanded cinema (Berlin), and a publication of his most recent electroacoustic works in the Japanese label Tokinogake. His work has been featured in publications including Neural, Tone Glow, and The Wire.
Allan Gardner (b.1992, Glasgow) is a Scottish artist based in London, UK, he studied at Leeds College of Art and the Royal College of Art. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including projects exhibited with the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), SCIENCE Museum (London), Tate St. Ives (Cornwall), No Gallery (NYC), Hannah Barry Gallery (London), Annka Kultys Gallery (London), Cite Des Arts Internationale (Paris), The Art House (Wakefield) and many more. His writing has been published by Kaleidoscope, Dazed, Sleek, Mousse, CLOT, The Quietus and many more. In 2021, he founded SCREW Gallery in Leeds, with a curatorial focus on the intersection of art and subculture.
Gardner’s work takes shape in a variety of mediums including text, sound, performance, video, collage, publishing and most dominantly, painting. His practice is concerned broadly with the transience of meaning and its function in contemporary popular culture. His work has been known to meld pop and youth culture with religious imagery, including pre-abrahamic spiritual practice in his native Scotland.
Gardner’s work takes shape in a variety of mediums including text, sound, performance, video, collage, publishing and most dominantly, painting. His practice is concerned broadly with the transience of meaning and its function in contemporary popular culture. His work has been known to meld pop and youth culture with religious imagery, including pre-abrahamic spiritual practice in his native Scotland.
Jung Hsu is an emerging media artist based in Berlin. Her artistic approach mainly combines her scientific/social investigation /research with poetic and political objects.
Her work formats in installation, technical medium, and performance. She is the Golden Nica winner of Ars Electronica 2022, Art & Science winner of Falling Walls 2023, and nominated by Tagesspiegel for “Die 100 wichtigsten Köpfe der Berliner Wissenschaft”
Sara Wu (b. 1994 in Taiwan) works in Taipei and London.
Her artistic practices encompass photography, sculpture, and installation. In her art, she often suspends the surfaces of overlooked, mundane events which are inspired by observations on and identifications of existing daily experiences, and the annotation of its re-experience.
Her works have received awards from Parallel Photo Platform and Taipei Art Awards, and have been exhibited in the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Centre in Budapest, the Royal Society of Sculptors in London, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. She has recently founded an artist-led experimental space ss space space with artist Sean Tseng.
Wu received an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London, the United Kingdom and her BA in Journalism from National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Her work formats in installation, technical medium, and performance. She is the Golden Nica winner of Ars Electronica 2022, Art & Science winner of Falling Walls 2023, and nominated by Tagesspiegel for “Die 100 wichtigsten Köpfe der Berliner Wissenschaft”
Sara Wu (b. 1994 in Taiwan) works in Taipei and London.
Her artistic practices encompass photography, sculpture, and installation. In her art, she often suspends the surfaces of overlooked, mundane events which are inspired by observations on and identifications of existing daily experiences, and the annotation of its re-experience.
Her works have received awards from Parallel Photo Platform and Taipei Art Awards, and have been exhibited in the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Centre in Budapest, the Royal Society of Sculptors in London, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. She has recently founded an artist-led experimental space ss space space with artist Sean Tseng.
Wu received an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London, the United Kingdom and her BA in Journalism from National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Kim Sollee creates sculptures by moving her body, and plays music without physical movement. She explores the connections between tangible mediums such as sculpture, installation, and production, and intangible practices like websites, sound, and event planning. Her goal is to design flexible intersections between different media, continuously pushing boundaries between the material and immaterial.
With a multidisciplinary approach spanning sculpture, sound, video, and production, Kim Sollee believes in the notion that "meaning cannot transcend its creator." She questions this belief through active engagement, constantly seeking answers by immersing herself in various contexts.
With a multidisciplinary approach spanning sculpture, sound, video, and production, Kim Sollee believes in the notion that "meaning cannot transcend its creator." She questions this belief through active engagement, constantly seeking answers by immersing herself in various contexts.
Nick Klein is an artist working in sound and art and sometimes (begrudgingly) sound art with a lean towards the social potential in those modalities as they interact.
Klein has recorded a large amount of music for tape, CD, digital file, and vinyl editions for music labels around the world, as well as running his own amorphous label project PL (primitive languages, Psychic Liberation, etc). Concurrently, to the best of his ability, he has shown work in visual art contexts. Klein is uninterested in the prohibitive ideological tropes and circumstances that both contexts offer, and focuses the intent of his work on trying to see what productive energy comes from the friction between the two. Klein likes loud volume, cooking, offline community building, records, bars, synthesizers, and comedy.
Klein is currently located in Berlin. Klein has operated a monthly radio show on Montez Press Radio since its inception and is spending 2023-2024 developing a monthly invitational program at the Volksbühne Roter Salon. Klein has collaborated in various capacities and medial materializations with Wilted Woman, Audrey Chen, Das Ding, Hugo Esquinca, Jean-Louis Huhta, Erik Nystrand, Scant, Philip Maier, Makoto Oshiro and many more.
Klein has performed and shown works in contexts and festivals like The Amant Foundation (USA), SARA’S (USA), MOMA PS1 (USA), De La Cruz Collection (USA), Volksbühne (DE), Empty Gallery (HK), Berghain (DE), Tresor (DE), Seendosi (SK), Cafe Sismo (CDMX), Cafe Oto (UK), Folkteatern (SE), Burning Fleshtival (USA), Herrensauna (DE), and Summer Scum (USA).
Klein has recorded a large amount of music for tape, CD, digital file, and vinyl editions for music labels around the world, as well as running his own amorphous label project PL (primitive languages, Psychic Liberation, etc). Concurrently, to the best of his ability, he has shown work in visual art contexts. Klein is uninterested in the prohibitive ideological tropes and circumstances that both contexts offer, and focuses the intent of his work on trying to see what productive energy comes from the friction between the two. Klein likes loud volume, cooking, offline community building, records, bars, synthesizers, and comedy.
Klein is currently located in Berlin. Klein has operated a monthly radio show on Montez Press Radio since its inception and is spending 2023-2024 developing a monthly invitational program at the Volksbühne Roter Salon. Klein has collaborated in various capacities and medial materializations with Wilted Woman, Audrey Chen, Das Ding, Hugo Esquinca, Jean-Louis Huhta, Erik Nystrand, Scant, Philip Maier, Makoto Oshiro and many more.
Klein has performed and shown works in contexts and festivals like The Amant Foundation (USA), SARA’S (USA), MOMA PS1 (USA), De La Cruz Collection (USA), Volksbühne (DE), Empty Gallery (HK), Berghain (DE), Tresor (DE), Seendosi (SK), Cafe Sismo (CDMX), Cafe Oto (UK), Folkteatern (SE), Burning Fleshtival (USA), Herrensauna (DE), and Summer Scum (USA).
Makoto Oshiro is a Tokyo-Berlin-based performer and artist. His primary medium is sound, but also combines other elements, including light, electricity, and the movement of objects. In live performances, he uses self-made tools and instruments that are based on electronic devices, everyday materials, and junk.
His installation work handles sound as a physical and auditory phenomenon and focuses on characteristics such as vibration and interference. He is also a member of the live installation / performance group The Great △(夏の大△) with Takahiro Kawaguchi and Satoshi Yashiro and runs the label Basic Function.
His installation work handles sound as a physical and auditory phenomenon and focuses on characteristics such as vibration and interference. He is also a member of the live installation / performance group The Great △(夏の大△) with Takahiro Kawaguchi and Satoshi Yashiro and runs the label Basic Function.
oolongradio is an art project based on web radio, run by Hyungjoong Kim and Sunkyu Lee. With backgrounds in film, philosophy, and media art (Kim), and visual communication design and fine arts (Lee), the two artists began collaborating through the process of building a web radio station, after years of exploring various artistic media in their own practices.
Started from a pure curiosity about radio, the project initially began by sharing music they each wanted to listen to. Since then, they have gone on to curate and broadcast a variety of radio programs, including experimental music, field recordings, live concerts, and interviews with artists.
In the participatory exhibitions and performance events listen listening (2023) and 8WAVES (2024), they exhibited various instruments and DIY objects that visitors could play themselves, while streaming the sounds generated in the space live via radio throughout the duration of the exhibitions. They also hosted a workshop where participants built their own FM radio transmitters.
For the project Radio Practice – Object (2025), they created and exhibited objects together with passersby on the streets of Berlin over the course of a month, streaming the sounds that emerged during these collaborative processes in real time.
More recently, they have been producing Dual Mono, a public radio broadcast program inviting artists who work with sound as a medium to talk about their lives and practices. They are also working in collaboration with Berlin-based experimental music concert series Psychic Liberation Night and Experimentik to live stream performances each month.
oolongradio sees radio not simply as a medium for transmitting sound, but as an open space where continuous acts of creation take place. Their work brings together distinct artistic practices in an ongoing attempt to connect, mix, and build something new.
Started from a pure curiosity about radio, the project initially began by sharing music they each wanted to listen to. Since then, they have gone on to curate and broadcast a variety of radio programs, including experimental music, field recordings, live concerts, and interviews with artists.
In the participatory exhibitions and performance events listen listening (2023) and 8WAVES (2024), they exhibited various instruments and DIY objects that visitors could play themselves, while streaming the sounds generated in the space live via radio throughout the duration of the exhibitions. They also hosted a workshop where participants built their own FM radio transmitters.
For the project Radio Practice – Object (2025), they created and exhibited objects together with passersby on the streets of Berlin over the course of a month, streaming the sounds that emerged during these collaborative processes in real time.
More recently, they have been producing Dual Mono, a public radio broadcast program inviting artists who work with sound as a medium to talk about their lives and practices. They are also working in collaboration with Berlin-based experimental music concert series Psychic Liberation Night and Experimentik to live stream performances each month.
oolongradio sees radio not simply as a medium for transmitting sound, but as an open space where continuous acts of creation take place. Their work brings together distinct artistic practices in an ongoing attempt to connect, mix, and build something new.
PROGRAM
6:00PM
EXHIBITION OPENING
8:00PM
OPENING PERFORMANCE
ARTISTS:
MAX EILBACHER
JOYUL
8:00PM
PERFORMANCE
ARTISTS:
FLORA YIN WONG
NICK KLEIN
8:00PM
CLOSING PERFORMANCE
ARTISTS:
PARK DAHAM
KAYON CHOI
TEAM
HYUNGJOONG KIM
JUNG HSU
NICK KLEIN
DESIGN:
DOMINIQUE SAIEGH
TEXT EDIT:
ROB GOYANES
TRANSLATION:
HANGIL JANG
CONTACT