Horizontaler Gentransfer
Punk meets K-Pop
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Horizontaler Gentransfer is about transmission beyond traditional forms of inheritance. Young punk band HGT was founded in Stuttgart in 2022 by six artists (Mizi Lee, Seonha Park, Jerry Ahn, Yun Park, Lilian Gonzalez, Hanseo Oh) with transnational biographies.
Using text, music and visual elements, they conduct research on fashion, infection and migration. Contrary to the dominant, vertical form of passing on genetic material from parents to their offspring, the name of the band refers to experimental mixing „between species“. In this way, they cross punk with K-pop and art pop. Horizontally between stage and audience, experiences and emotions are also transmitted at their concerts. We confess: We were instantly lovestruck!
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Mizi Lee (*1990, Changwon, South Korea) uses all types of media and crosses the boundaries of all disciplines to create a unique experience. Sometimes, she will set up a fake supermarket to print catalogues full of artworks, sometimes she screams in a punk band in Berlin’s Kulturbrauerei or in old carriages at Stuttgart’s Nordbahnhof. Her work is interdisciplinary and collective because she believes that more than just one artist is needed to create works of art. In 2022, she founded punk band Horizontaler Gentransfer and conceives projects by the dozen with it, all lying at the intersection of visual arts, performance and theatre. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Painting (Hongik University, Seoul) and completed her diploma in Fine Arts at ABK Stuttgart with Nadine Bracht, Werner Schüle, Enno Lehmann, Claudia Heinzler, Solveig Fröhling, Jonghyun Park, Martin Lutz, Nobert Kull, Thomas Breitenfeld, Daniel Mijic, Justyna Koeke, Tilmann Eberwein, Prof. Bier, Prof. Roggan, Prof. Roob, Prof. Thomas, and Schorsch Kamerun.
Yun Park, born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1995, completed her bachelor’s degree in communication design at the local Hongik University. Even then, she was a member of the band „Trident“ as a drummer and keyboardist. She then started studying Fine Art regularly at ABK Stuttgart in 2021. In addition to the band HGT, she is also a drummer in the band Flora and Ufo Snacks.
Jerry Ahn, born in 1995, holds a bachelor’s degree in sculpture and art history from Ewha Women’s University in Seoul. Since 2020, she has been studying with Prof. Rolf Bier, since 2021 with Prof. Ricarda Roggan at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. She explores gender identity artistically through drawing, film, and installation means. ‚Means‘ is her favourite word.
Seonha Park, born in Busan, South Korea, in 1995, has been studying Fine Art at ABK Stuttgart since 2017. She has also been a member of Yeastweise since 2022.
Lilian Gonzalez was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and is a linguist and a multidisciplinary musician/artist. She earned her BA degree in philosophy from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. She moved to Berlin afterwards where she completed postgraduate studies in classical philology before moving to Stuttgart. In 2021, she completed her MA in Linguistics at the University of Tübingen and is currently a PhD candidate in Linguistics in Tübingen. In addition to her academic work, she is part of several music projects. Her work, whether academic, musical, or artistic, mainly deals with the topic of mixing cultures and languages.
Hanseo Oh, born in Stuttgart in 1994, completed her bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design and Art History at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. She has been studying for her master’s degree in Communication Design at Hfg Offenbach since 2022. She learned how to crochet at the crochet workshop of feminist group “Femi-DangDang” in Korea. She crochets costumes for Horizontaler Gentransfer and sometimes subs on bass.
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Made possible by the “Initiative Musik”.