Renowned composer and sound artist Won Il, who inaugurated the very first K-Music Festival in 2013 with the National Orchestra of Korea, returns this year with a daring new work: Dionysus Robot.

Inspired by Nietzsche’s philosophy of Dionysus and paying homage to media art pioneer Nam June Paik, Dionysus Robot is a bold, interdisciplinary work that fuses traditional Korean and electronic instruments, shamanic vocalisations, kinetic movement, and projected image. This immersive experience unfolds as a contemporary gut — a modern Korean ritual where sound, light, body and technology collide to provoke all five senses. As the title suggests, the piece explores a space where chaos meets control, instinct meets machine, and the sacred meets the synthetic.

At the centre of the performance is drag artist and dancer Jimin Mo, who embodies a modern-day Dionysian high priest, leading the audience through a raw, sensory-driven ritual of liberation and transformation.

The K-Music Festival is organised by the Korean Cultural Centre UK in partnership with Serious.

Discover the K-Music Festival 2025 Programme here.