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A handful of photos from my thesis work back in April, installed at UCLA’s New Wight gallery.

Invisible Landscapes
(NWG41626)

Five-channel network of autonomously tuning robotic radio systems produced from converted kitchen items and grocery recycling. Responsive to the conditions of each site, ambient electromagnetic frequencies are channeled, mediated, and amplified through arrangements of discarded containers, packaging, and household items adapted into crude electrical circuitry. The technology comes from appropriations of early electrical patents underlying the first semiconductor systems, producing an evolving soundscape susceptible to loss, interference, and degradation. The resulting environment centers the distortion of information through a continuous process of energy conversion.

documentation: @rborsdorf by @a.sungtaek

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Andrew Sungtaek reminds us that Donald Judd was stationed with the US military occupation in Korea in 1946–47, just before the Korean War broke out. While Judd anecdotally acknowledged that his time in Korea was influential, the minimalist forms of his work were nonetheless taken up as strictly non-referential.

For Sungtaek, more than the question of influence, this occlusion opens onto an aesthetics of war and colonial occupation whose expression comes in amnesia, in always suppressing its own origins even while making art from war-surplus production lines. Paradoxically, it was in trying to render Judd’s austere minimalism legible to the growing Korean art market in recent years that his Korean influence gained tactical value towards prospective sales, and more explicit acknowledgement in turn.

Read at e-flux journal issue 164. Link in bio.

@a.sungtaek

Images: [1] The Chinati Foundation’s converted artillery sheds that house Donald Judd’s hundred untitled works in mill aluminum, 1982-86. [2] Main hall of Jongmyo Shrine. [3] Spirit pathway sign, Jongmyo Shrine, Seoul, South Korea. [4] Detail of fifteen untitled works in concrete by Donald Judd, 1980–84. On the grounds of the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. [5] Jaegung area, Jongmyo Shrine. by @a.sungtaek

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4 months ago

My essay Architectures of Amnesia: Donald Judd and America’s “Forgotten War” in Korea, is alive in the latest @e_flux journal.

Thank you Brian and Hallie and the rest of the editorial team for publishing this work. You can read it now on their site. 😗 by @a.sungtaek

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4 months ago

Somewhere between beginning and end—THESIS NUMBER 3 ✨

The third of our four thesis exhibitions opens next week Thursday, April 16th! With the reception happening from 5-8pm.

Please join us in celebrating
@dirtproject_
@keegan_holden
@bydanenakama
@a.sungtaek

You know the drill ♥️

Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday, 9:30AM - 4:30PM
Weekends, 10AM - 5PM

New Wight Gallery
Broad Art Center, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90065

Flier design by @eyetaw by @a.sungtaek

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6 months ago

My MFA thesis show opens April 16th at the New Wight Gallery on the UCLA campus. I'm very excited to share a new and highly experimental installation I have been developing. So many skills and ideas I've developed over the past 3 years have gone into this. It's still crunch time so I will be hopping offline shortly.

I hope to see you at the opening, or I would love to give you a tour of the show during gallery hours. It's not open long.

Thank you Heesoo for making this flier. @leymusoom

I will be showing alongside @bydanenakama @gene__studio @keegan_holden

It's been a journey 🔌💛 by @a.sungtaek

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The 1973 fire at the Military Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri, destroyed an estimated 16–18 million official military personnel files and job records. Roughly 80% of Army files and 75% of Air Force files vanished, disproportionately affecting records from the U.S. occupation/division of Korea (1945–48), the occupation of Japan (1945–52), and the Korean War (1950–53). Arson was suspected but never proven; the official cause of the fire remains undetermined. by @a.sungtaek

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10 months ago

My video will be playing on the UCLA campus in the New Wight gallery until Nov. 14th ☁️

My first video work, composed several weeks ago in a state of covid delirium.

Andrew Sungtaek, Recording Clouds, 2025
Single-channel video, black-and-white, sound, 2:55 min.

Recording Clouds montages aerial footage shot over northern Korea, recorded from U.S. and U.N. military aircraft. The archival material has been altered to remove scenes of violence and identifying context, transforming the images into drifting, near-abstract views of landscape and cloud. I began compiling this footage in 2023, guided by the idea that these archives could potentially hold the only surviving images of my grandfather’s hometown.

📷 @keegan_holden by @a.sungtaek

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a year ago

Thank you so much to everyone who came to the Open House at @headlandsarts last Sunday! Feeling so grateful for our site specific pop-up exhibition, made possible only with the incredible collaborators ❤️

𝙻𝚎𝚢𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚘𝚘𝚖 𝙵𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚏𝚕𝚢, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟻, 𝙸𝚛𝚠𝚘𝚗-𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚐, 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚜, 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟷–𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟺

𝙲𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝚂𝚜𝚘-𝚁𝚑𝚊 𝙺𝚊𝚗𝚐 (@kangssorha )
𝟺 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖 𝚋𝚢 𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚠 𝚂𝚞𝚗𝚐𝚝𝚊𝚎𝚔 (@a.sungtaek )
𝙸𝚗𝚔𝚓𝚎𝚝 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚔 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚌𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝙷𝚎𝚎𝚜𝚘𝚘 𝙺𝚠𝚘𝚗 (@leymusoom )
𝙻𝚎𝚢𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚘𝚘𝚖 𝙶𝚒𝚏𝚝𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚙 𝚋𝚢 𝚂𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙱𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜 (@smingsmingbooks )

With heartfelt thanks to @front_era___ for installation support and @rborsdorf for documentation. Deep gratitude to the Headlands team and all who brought this project to life.

It was short but so full…! so much to unpack, reflect, and grow from. Documentation coming soon 👀 taken in Headlands Center for the Arts by @a.sungtaek

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WIP for @headlandsarts Open House tomorrow 12-5pm 🦉🏡 you should come and experience this in person !!!

A site specific installation in collaboration with Sso-Rha Kang (@kangssorha )and Andrew Sungtaek (@a.sungtaek )

Leymusoom Firefly, 2025, Irwon-dong, windows, 1991–1994 taken in Headlands Center for the Arts by @a.sungtaek

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a year ago

Our 1 year birthday taken in Oakland, California by @a.sungtaek

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a year ago

taken in Incheon, Korea by @a.sungtaek

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This Saturday the 31st we are hosting our annual open studios! @ucla_art

Come see and hear what I’ve been working on this year. I will have some new work setup in my studio #31 :) by @a.sungtaek

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