Gabin Kim
she / her
South Korean, 2002
gabinkim.com
Constructed from field recordings, found sound, and scripted spatial actions, this radio drama examines domestic and urban space through listening. Composed from recordings made in Seoul, the work shares its point of departure with a film presented alongside it, while unfolding as an independent sonic work.
My House You Built approaches domestic space as something unstable, continuously produced through use, habit, and displacement.
The film follows two loosely connected figures: a woman moving through interior and exterior domestic environments, and a man staying temporarily in a hotel room. Both occupy spaces that are not fully theirs, where belonging is constantly negotiated through small, repetitive actions. The work is less concerned with narrative progression than with how these conditions register in the body, how rooms are entered, abandoned, adjusted to, and quietly endured.
It began from observing residential and temporary housing situations where “home” is not a fixed site but a shifting arrangement of routines, boundaries, and permissions. In these environments, architecture becomes audible: thin walls, distant traffic, mechanical hums, and incidental noises that continuously interrupt privacy and reshape attention.
Through slow duration and minimal dialogue, the film builds a rhythm around these interruptions. Sound becomes a structuring presence rather than background, revealing how space is never neutral but constantly active, pressing into perception, altering time, and producing subtle forms of displacement that persist even in stillness.
