My name is Soeine Bac. I am a Korean-born artist based in Vancouver, Canada, working with movement, installation, sound, and image. I studied dance and media art in Vancouver, Canada, followed by postgraduate study in Fine Art and Visual Cultures in London, UK. During my studies in interactive art, I began exploring improvisation through computerised sensors in live performance. Later, through my experience with Live Art in the UK, improvisation became a primary method as my engagement with somatic movement deepened. This shift allowed my movement practice to expand beyond the conventional frame of contemporary dance and toward relational, process-based work.

Following my artist residency at YATOO in South Korea in 2015, my work developed into site-specific practice. Space and temporality became central to my work, influenced by YATOO’s philosophy of Nature Art. Around the same time, I became interested in the Buddhist notion of emptiness. Grounded in East Asian philosophy, somatic awareness, and site-responsive processes, I began to engage with natural environments, allowing transformation to emerge through sustained encounter while minimising human intervention. This approach became foundational to my improvisational practice.

Since 2016, collaborations with composers and sound artists have deepened my research into the relationship between sound and movement, expanding improvisation as a space of listening and response. I have also studied Buddhist drumming and martial arts, including aikido and capoeira, as embodied practices, situating movement within broader disciplines rather than performance alone.

As part of my site-specific practice, I have built corn-shaped shelters in forest environments using materials available on site. This process led me to study tensegrity, an architectural system based on relationships between tension and compression, and to consider the living body as a tensegrity structure. I am currently exploring how tensegrity operates in living bodies and how this understanding informs movement and spatial practice.