Ha Kyoon is a protean artist born in South Korea, raised in France and based in Paris.
With a circus, dance & acting background, he collaborates with different artists in the performing arts fields since 2009.
His first solo ‘RUINE’ went on tour (2019-2024), and performed a short version of it ‘Envers Amour’ at La Station Gare des Mines, Paris in september 2020.
In april 2020, invited by the label MMODEMM and Theater Mousonturm in Francfort, he created the first version of ‘Inverted Méditation – Die Sicht der Wirbel’ a 40 minutes inverted musical act, on head-balanced or handstand and the second version had been presented at Le Tony on the 6th june ’24 in Paris.
Under his moniker Ha Kyoon, he is on tour with a punk electronique live act, with machines, a trigged snare, synths and a voice. He played in venues such as La Station Gare des Mines (Paris), Urban Spree, An(8)x core (Berlin), VOLNOST (Seoul), SYSTEM (Shanghai), Beijing, Arcan (Saïgon), Cafe Central and La Vallée (Brussels), Hamburg, Rokolectiv (Romania), Jakarta, Bandung, and more.
The choreographer Lavinia Vago invited him to compose and perform in her show FKK in Seattle in April 2024.
As part of SHAPE+ platform 24’25’, he’s working on a new performance ‘The Shoulder Blades or, Shields of the Heart’.
Ha Kyoon is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
Download press photo here (credit – Chloe Magdeleine).
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