The Korean Cultural Centre Canada (KCC) is pleased to present <Artists Talk: Resonant Connections> with curator Seihee Shon and artists Jade Sujin LEE and Ryth Kesselring on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, at 6:00 PM (ET).

<Resonant Connections> is a contemporary art project that explores the possibilities of creating art in collaboration with nature through site-responsive installations, sound art, and digital art. Conceived as a platform for artistic experimentation, the project invites artists to listen attentively to a specific forest ecosystem, engage with the living beings that inhabit it, and explore the aesthetics that emerge where the natural environment meets digital media.

Event Details

* Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2026, 6:00 PM (ET)

* Venue: Korean Cultural Centre Canada (150 Elgin St #101, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4)

* Admission: Free

* Registration: https://forms.gle/Y6X4zXVzQipnR7cy6

Resonant Connections

<Resonant Connections> is a contemporary art project that highlights collaboration with nature through site-responsive installations, sound art, and digital art. Conceived as a research laboratory, it supports risk-taking and artistic experimentation. By listening attentively to the ecosystem of a specific forest environment, the participating artists engage with the living beings that inhabit it and explore the aesthetics emerging from digital realities within the forest. Baron Lanteigne, Caroline Gagné, Gabrielle HB, Jade Sujin LEE, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, and Ryth Kesselring explore the resonances between place, the soundscape, and today’s digital world. These works will be on view on 6 September in Sainte-Christine. The project is co-curated by Seihee Shon and Ryth Kesselring.

About Curator and artsits 

Seihee Shon

Seihee Shon is a curator, writer and educator based in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Focusing on time-based media art and the intersection of art and technology, she explores questions of landscape, place, memory, and, more recently, ecological thought. Her latest projects and exhibitions include More Than Meets the Ear (2025, Seoul), Tuning (2023-2025, Seoul), Anywhere Arts (2024-2025, Seoul), Silent Walk (2023, Seoul), Walking Festival of Sound (2022, Seoul, Vancouver), Explore Sound (2022, Incheon), and Parallel Landscape (2019, Incheon). She studied History of Art, and Art Museum and Gallery Education. She is the founder of Organic Project, curatorial laboratory for time-based art.

Jade Sujin LEE

Jade Sujin LEE, Exhibition view of Polyphony Club: Mondegreen Expanded Edition, The WilloW, Seoul, 2025 

Jade Sujin LEE explores a range of invisible signs and sensations, including light, memory, and sound, which appear in particular border areas of the everyday world. LEE imagines an arbitrary virtual world in which all beings, including humans, construct themselves. Based on the imagination, she reconstructs the fluid concepts that flow between the temporality of the ‘past-present-future,’ expressing them through various creative forms that encompass spatial installation, performance, narration, and video.

Born and raised in downtown Seoul during the economic growth in the early 1980s, the artist has been interested in various characteristics of urbanization and industrialization, such as ‘confrontation and discrimination,’ ‘conflict and clash,’ ‘destruction and renewal,’ and ‘migration and settlement.’ In the process, the artist has discovered the various ways in which nature and disparate spaces and places are layered with time. She overlaps ‘individual/collective memories and narratives,’ ‘an imagination of a novel-like world beneath the surface of science fiction’, and the ‘primitive vitality that revives (or rehabilitates)’—which transform the state of ‘confrontation and conflict’ that has been continuously manifested since the transition to industrial society into a situation of ‘reconciliation and healing’—with specific situations, attempting to make the infinite possibilities compatible with them.

Ryth Kesselring

Ryth Kesselring, Abstractions géographiques_strophe d'épinettes, 2025 

Born in Switzerland, Ryth Kesselring moved to Canada during her childhood. Her interdisciplinary research translates trough weavings, electronics and sound, creating interactive ecosystems that reflect on political and ecological issues. Her work draws parallels between the archival potential of textile objects and the memories emerging from audible materials. She holds a MFA in Fibres & Material Practices from Concordia University (2024) and her graduate studies were granted with the prestigious FRQSC, SSHRC and the Yvonne L. Bombardier Graduate Scholarships. Her work is supported by the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec and has been awarded by the Culture Montérégie's Prix numérique (2021) and the Jury’s prize at the international Land Art event Créations-sur-le-champ (2024) among others. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally as at the Arte Documento gallery in Ensenada, Mexico (2023), the Diagonale gallery in Montreal (2025) and the art center Nabi in Seoul, South Korea (2025). She deepened her research though various residencies including the tExtilEs residency at EasternBloc in Montréal (2022) and the Jorisch family artist residency in Salzburg, Austria (2023). She lives and works as artist and educator in southern Quebec. (www.rytha-kesselring.com