K-Music Festival 2025: Won II's Dionysus Robot
Composer and sound artist Won Il’s daring new work fuses traditional Korean and electronic instruments, shamanic vocalisations, movement and projections.
Innovative composer Won Il inaugurated the very first K-Music Festival in 2013 with the National Orchestra of Korea, and returns this year with Dionysus Robot.
Inspired by Nietzsche’s philosophy of Dionysus and paying homage to media art pioneer Nam June Paik, Dionysus Robot is a bold, interdisciplinary work.
This immersive experience unfolds as a contemporary gut – a modern Korean ritual where sound, light, body and technology collide to provoke all five senses.
As the title suggests, the piece explores a space where chaos meets control, instinct meets machine, and the sacred meets the synthetic.
At the centre of the performance is drag artist and dancer Jimin Mo, who embodies a modern-day Dionysian high priest, leading the audience through a raw, sensory-driven ritual of liberation and transformation.
K-Music Festival is organised by the Korean Cultural Centre UK in partnership with Serious.
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