A Method with Plasticity: A Conversation with Sojung Jun

In this conversation with Afterall editors Nav Haq and Adeena Mey, Sojung Jun reflects on her practice, which traverses film, sound, sculpture, and installation to explore questions of social and technological acceleration, transcultural movements and hybridity, rhythm and temporality. From her recent work Syncope (2023) to earlier projects engaging with diasporic memory and the legacies of East Asian modernity, Jun unpacks how ‘plasticity’ functions as both method and metaphor. She reflects on topics including colonial infrastructures, speculative fabulation, the sonic dimensions of time, and the poetic fragments of artists like Kim Hyesoon, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Yi Sang.