Theater Made with Talking Appliances

Jaha Koo uses rice cookers to tell the story of South Korea's financial collapse.by Rich SmithA few years ago, a rice cooker awakened Jaha Koo from a deep depression. The South Korean composer and theater-maker had been losing friends and acquaintances to suicide at a rate of roughly one per year for a decade. When suicide took one of his closest friends, Koo retreated into himself.At the bottom of his own black pit, an unlikely voice called out to him and lifted him up. "Cuckoo has finished coo