Yuri Seung
Yuri Seung is an interdisciplinary creator whose work merges nonfiction, sound, and visual media. Through a multisensory approach that often centers the body as both subject and instrument, she explores constructed identities, displacement, and the porous boundaries between personal and collective memory. Her current work examines listening as a practice of relation and repair, asking how sonic and narrative forms can hold what resists articulation. Across her projects, she engages themes of expression, shame, and the capacity to heal, drawing from her background in community-based arts and a longstanding interest in how creative practice can foster empathy and connection.
Awarded Grants
2025
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Yuri Seung’s project, Unsettled Ground: A Score for Displaced Listening, will be a year-long participatory sound-based exploration of belonging, memory, and repair for adoptees, immigrants, and others affected by displacement. Rooted in Yuri’s experience as a transnational adoptee, the project invites participants to engage in sound walks, workshops, and rehearsals that will culminate in a public performance in Philadelphia in late 2026. Inspired by the ecological listening practices of Pauline Oliveros and David Dunn, as well as the experimental scores of Raven Chacon, this project will transform displacement into connection, through attentive listening and co-created sonic environments.