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Aris Kim (real name Kim Young-chan), a multidisciplinary artist who showcases various performances based on the saxophone.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Heeyoon] "My profession is a saxophone musician, but beyond playing, I wanted to present performances that embody the soul as an artist."

Aris Kim (real name Kim Youngchan, 42), a multidisciplinary artist who has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, USA, showcasing various art genres based on the saxophone, will hold a newly composed art show, ARISHOW, on the 24th.

Aris Kim, who majored in saxophone at the Korea National University of Arts, gained public attention by consistently performing busking stages at the Seoul Arts Center while still a student.

After winning the 2016 Asia International Tango Championship, he deepened his art by presenting solo tango dancing, known as ‘Batango’.

To fill the sudden absence of a performing colleague, he studied VR and video art, and incorporated AI (Artificial Intelligence) into his performances, presenting a new form of musical theater where the 2nd and 3rd Aris Kims appear on stage through video and holograms.

In April, at an invited stage at Carnegie Hall in New York, Aris Kim performed saxophone and Batango wearing his own special costume made with LED and lasers.

Having mastered saxophone, tango, video art, VR, and his own AI, he continues new challenges with a non-verbal concert through ARISHOW, which he plans, directs, and stars in.

Aris Kim (real name Kim Young-chan), a multidisciplinary artist who showcases various performances based on the saxophone.

Aris Kim explained, “ARISHOW is a stage meaning ‘to benefit the self (我利)’, starting from the thought that we stand on the boundary between life and death because we were not born by our own choice,” adding, “This performance is a struggle to find a highly subjective life of myself that is not influenced by others.”

He continued, “Nevertheless, as an artist, I am working on contemporary art pieces themed on ‘Mugongdeok’?meaning that without an audience, I alone have no meaning,” and added, “This ARISHOW is themed on a funeral preparing for death, showing artistically the fundamental human concern of living life to the fullest while alive and ultimately living for oneself in the face of death.”

Aris Kim’s performance, which fuses contemporary art and AI, will be held at 3 p.m. on the 24th at the Korea Aerophone School performance hall in Mapo-gu, Seoul.

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