NEO_Kut combines the spiritual world recreated through the rituals of Jeju shamans, a space between this world and the afterlife, a space of 18,000 gods handed down from ancient times, and a virtual world created by projection light. Audiences experience a spiritual space made up of sound and light through a wearable audio-visual installation.

Jeju has been a place where the Gut culture, the prototype of Korean traditional art, has been handed down for 5,000 years, placing more importance on invisible relational energies than visible ones, and Jeju’s spiritual sensibility and old aesthetics of life contained in that one stone and one wind. I wanted to include it in ‘Neo Good’.

Seo Soon-sil, the Jeju Mansin (Chairman of the Jeju Keun Gut Preservation Association), Oh Yong-bu, and members of the Traditional Arts Performance Development Center, Jeju’s leading traditional entertainers, came together to explore the mysterious realm of Jeju’s gods that had been difficult to grasp through ‘Neo Gut’. It was expressed so that the audience could feel closer to it.