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Soojin Pray works across moving image, site-responsive performance, media installation, and embodied practice. Her projects examine how bodies, sites, and digital media carry forms of memory that are not fully contained by written or institutional archives.

The masked artist performing at Seonbawi Rock before dawn in the released first work

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2023 (begun)
A Three-Part Ritual-Media Project

We, We Wish

Three completed works tracing embodied cultural memory, ritual, and invisible relations across body, place, and contemporary media.

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Soojin Pray on a Seoul rooftop wearing a branch-like headdress and holding a drum in MAGO GAIA

02

2020
Ritual performance film / moving-image work · 9 min 33 sec

MAGO GAIA

An early moving-image work in the artistic lineage of Soojin Pray’s ritual-media practice. A mythic figure moves through the alleys and rooftops of contemporary Seoul.

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Dusk performance at Jaguri Park with the audience reclining across the coastal field

03

2025–ongoing
Site-responsive ritual performance cycle

Healing Tide

A site-responsive ritual performance cycle that composes temporary fields of collective attention through sound, movement, breath, and place.

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Meridian Flow Score from Soojin Pray’s artist notebook, 2021

04

2020–ongoing
Long-term embodied research

MOUM: The Living Archive

Long-term embodied research into Korean body-cosmology, breath, movement, qi, meridian knowledge, seasonal rhythm, and everyday ritual.

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Selected frame from the Yangsaeng moving-image series

05

2020–ongoing
Moving-image series

Yangsaeng 養生

A moving-image series arising from MOUM: The Living Archive research and the classical Korean practice of nurturing life through daily bodily care.

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Inner Exploration: A 100-Day Project documentation

06

2020–2021
Collective moving-image archive · participatory installation documentation · durational / embodied research

Inner Exploration: A 100-Day Project

Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the project adapted the Korean cultural structure of one hundred days of practice into a collective inquiry into repetition, inner life, and shared time.

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Still from RED GOKKAL, 2020

07

2020
Independent performance films

Early Ritual & Moving-Image Works

RED GOKKAL, MAGO GAIA, and Circle of Life form an early moving-image lineage exploring bodily memory, myth, ritual, death and renewal, and the relation between body and place.

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An aerial view of a large white circle and Soojin Pray on tidal ground

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2020/2026
Site-responsive performance film · single-channel moving image · colour, stereo sound · 11 min 58 sec

Circle of Life

A personal act of mourning unfolds through repeated bodily actions on tidal ground; the 2020 film was revisited through a complete sound re-edit in 2026.

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A participant wearing a VR headset while Soojin Pray performs live sound beside the physical GOYO installation

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2023–2024
Archived XR Research · Development discontinued

GOYO Meditation Planet

Archived XR research exploring continuity between virtual and physical space through immersive environment and spatial sound. Development discontinued.

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