Fragments from EXISTENZ

Thursday, February 26 2026 at 10:00 PM Xing presents at Raum, Bologna, Fragments from EXISTENZ: The Third Malformation, Or Combinatorial Rotation of The City / The Tunnels / The House / The Beach (Fragment 3.1 Folio X “ANOMALY”), a sound performance by Korean musician and writer Sunik Kim, presented for the first time in Italy.

With EXISTENZ (fragments from), following extensive research on composer Conlon Nancarrow, Sunik Kim continues to explore time and duration, working on the micro-mutation of structures and forms through music in constant motion—or rather, in a state of erosion and restructuring.

Fragments from EXISTENZ is a radical sound performance that invites us to move beyond the concept of spectacle and instead follow the electromagnetic impulses that transform a “music we have already been inside before,” breaking its forms apart and unfolding them within a subjective experience of time.

Beyond the music, presented live for the first time, Sunik Kim has written a special essay for the occasion — available to those attending the sound performance at Raum — which outlines the thoughts, actions, and reflections that make up this body of work. Reading the essay — and rereading it — is a way to illuminate the mental space that produced this deeply meditated music and its internal ecology.