Extinction is a solo performance and sound work developed by Kay Yoon (SK) for the acoustic and architectural conditions of Platform BUNKER (CPH). Centering a house-shaped children's toy piano as the scarce, domestic but uncanny, scenography, Yoon moves through themes about bones and osteoporosis, underground architecture, mass extinction and Korea's demographic collapse, the near-passage of Scholz's Star, and the history of Korean migrant workers in 1960s–70s Germany. AI-cloned voices begin to layer over her own, repeating and multiplying, until the original becomes indistinguishable from its copies. As she engages with the traditional Korean danso flute, vibration begins to transfer into structure.

The work asks how inherited structures, of tradition, of labor, of migration, persist across temporal and geographical boundaries, haunting and animating the present. At the intersection of pansori rhythms, mechanical noise, AI clones, and everyday domestic materials, Yoon excavates forms of ritual emerging as contemporary landscapes: the ceremonial made industrial, the industrial made sacred.

Extinction is presented as part of RING/CAM, a multisite initiative by 2 curators 1 collapse (Joachim Aagaard Friis & Elia-Rosa Guirous-Amasse) examining the entanglements between technology, veillance, and control. Named for the ring light and camera setups that proliferated during the pandemic, mass-produced, ubiquitous, encoding self-surveillance as lifestyle, RING/CAM thinks through what it means to appear, to be seen, and to refuse. Across performance, installation, and talks, it proposes temporary counter-sites within the city.

Kay Yoon (Seoul/Berlin) works within the spectral realms among cultural memory, technological mediation, and embodied ritual, with her practice emerging from the emotional terrain of displacement and cultural crossing. Her work traces how the inherited structures of traditions and modernity persist and evolve across temporal and geographical boundaries through personal family narratives and systemic social forces, approaching tradition as spectral matter that haunts and animates contemporary life.