About 

My name is Soeine Bac. I integrate performance art, media art, and visual art, with improvisation as a core method. I create site-specific performances and artworks that emphasize embodied presence and relationality with the environment. Recently, I have been presenting my work in conventional settings—galleries and theatres—while incorporating the philosophy of improvisation from my site-specific practice. While my background is mainly Western, I pursue the natural world of matter to find my sense of self. 

I try to extend art as a form of living, beyond a merely institutional discipline. I explore how, through arts, we can connect to ourselves, to each other, and to the world around us. Life is improvised, thus improvisation has become my method and conceptual ground for art and life. My artistic products are the trails or residues of the process of living. My work examines the transient nature of existence. 

A photograph of Soeine Bac

My practice is informed by somatic movement, instant composition, and philosophical inquiries into time, presence, and transformation. I explore artistic intention through spontaneous creation, dissolving boundaries between movement, sound, and environment.

 My art practice is interdisciplinary. Dancing has influenced the way I make art; I tend to pursue abstraction rather than representation. Conversely, my art background shapes the way I understand dance; I interpret body movements in the contexts of visual art practice. In addition, I have been interested in sound art. Sound has been an anchor for my exploration of the concept of space.

Working with the body brings me close to the materiality of things and makes me aware of its constant change, which frustrates my human desire for permanence. I contemplate the material itself to witness its process of change. This contemplation allows me to improvise my reception of the objects at the given time and in the given space.