Screenings: Contemporary Art of Global Asias

Screenings: Contemporary Art of Global Asias

Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Future Histories Studio (Staller 4222)
1-2:30 pm and 4:30-6 pm
Screened works are selected by Seoul-based curator Hyunjin Kim
Korean cookies/snacks will be provided

1-2:30 pm
Ayoung Kim
Petrogenesis, Petra Genetrix, 2019. Single-channel video, 6 min 48 sec
Presenting a journey through a hyperbolic mythology based on a fictional genderless mineral Petra Genetrix, Kim explores the Mongolian animist belief that positions land, mother rock, stones, and sacred caves at the center of their universe.

Ho Tzu Nyen
Hotel Aporia, 2019. Single-channel video, 84:00 mins. Courtesy of the artist and Edouard Malingue Gallery
The work explores the histories and biographies related to the Kirakutei, a Japanese-style inn and restaurant in Toyota city, Japan that operated between Japan’s Taisho and Showa periods. Originally a site-specific installation with six-channel video and automated fans, lights, transducers and a show control system, this single-channel is produced for the presentation at KADIST.

4:30-6 pm
Jane Jin Kaisen
Community of Parting, 2019. Single-channel video, 72:22 mins
The work invokes the ancient Korean shamanic myth of the abandoned Princess Bari and employs female Korean shamanism as a mode of ethics, aesthetics of memory, and mutual recognition. The film features imagery across various locations, including but not limited to the DMZ, South Korea, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Japan, China, the United States, and Germany.