MinKyeong Park connects white noise to the space where you can hear it and people’s emotions. The history of white noise is the history of technological modernity. White noise was originally only a loud noise, but engineers processed and designed the sound to convert it into a sincere sound of modern labor. ‘The worker generally doesn’t know this effect, doesn’t seem to hear the white noise generator, and unconsciously auto-processing is the exact proof that he obeys subordinate workplace ideology that can make him identify with machines.’ This fact is a strange and bizarre phenomenon that makes us just like machines. White noise was linked to stories such as emotions, groups, workers, and races, not just mechanical sounds to keep people focused on their work. The technical function of white noise affects their emotional aspects. It’s said to have improved a lot, but it’s still subtle and hidden, and it’s an uncomfortable phenomenon that continues to exist somewhere.
white is not anything really, not an identity, not a particularising quality, because it is everything— white is no colour because it is all colours …. The colourless multi-colouredness of whiteness secures white power by making it hard, especially for white people and their media, to “see” whiteness. This, of course, also makes it hard to analyse …. The subject seems to fall apart in your hands as soon as you begin. (Richard Dyer, 1997)
Her work combines installation and sound. Several sculptures create a space where you can recognize and experience hidden white noise that you cannot usually hear.
