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Museum
2021 Art and technology conference
«Quantum Jump: Leap into the future» onine
Two-channel video installation, 10’5”, 2021
Museum experiments with the potential of virtual spaces to unsettle how we sense museum walls and the institutional boundary between viewer and exhibit. The video begins with footage of a software glitch that traps the viewer inside a virtual museum wall, collapsing the divide between subject and object. This disorientation shifts to scenes of real-world enclosures—zoos—where the camera lingers not on animals, but on glass, bars, and fences, revealing the violence of exhibits and containment infrastructures that often goes unseen.
ASMR Tutorial
2019 art and technology conference
«A map of a heart moving towards the skull» Haengwhatang, seoul
30min, performance, 2019
ASMR Tutorial critiques the gendered dynamics of ASMR by parodying how platform-driven demands teach women—both explicitly and implicitly—how to speak, act, and perform “ASMR-istically.” The audience receives tutorial links on their phones during the show, while the performer creates a final tutorial live on stage, embodying the stylized behaviors of ASMR before sharing it with the audience in real time. By turning private, feminized digital labor into public performance, the work reveals the precarity behind such mediated intimacy.
DWLP: Department of Web and Land Property
2019 Platform-L Live Arts Program
«Machine Room» Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul
Web art, multimedia installation, live performance, 2020
Department of Web and Land Property (DWLP) is set in a near future where the depletion of web resources has become imminent. In this future, the DWLP manages the nation’s two limited assets—land and the web—aiming for stability and balanced development between the physical home of citizens (land) and their practical home (the web). This exaggerated dystopian scenario invites reflection on how the web, often seen as infinite and timeless, is in fact rooted in physical networks, and is inevitably consumed, replaced, and depleted.
Text Buffet
Wreath and towel, seoul
Writing, 2022 - Present
As a resident writer at Wreath and Towel—a space that experiments with the materiality of language and the spatial experience of reading—I contribute to texts that are exhibited like art objects. In one collaborative show, furniture designer Eunji Wang created sculptural pieces in response to my writing, transforming literary ideas into forms that could be touched, inhabited, and lived with. My texts currently on view span a wide range of themes—animal rights activism and the politics of witnessing pain, feminist scienc fiction in the anthropocene, and more.
Illogical Love
2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26)
«Gathering moss» watershed, bristol and arts nabi center, seoul
Web art, 2021
Presented as part of Gathering Moss—a British Council and Korea Foundation commission for COP26—Illogical Loveis a poetic civil movement by Sooah Kwak and Chanu Lee that challenges anthropocentric climate politics. Rooted in queer ecology, feminist new materialism, and more-than-human worlds, the project imagines love as an irrational, expansive force that extends to all beings—human, animal, and object—reframing love as a radical tool for climate action.
I See Rainforest
«Climate sight» waterworks museum, boston and online
60 digital images, processing, 2020
Using 60 satellite images of rainforests sourced from Google Earth, this work translates environmental destruction into ASCII code via Processing. The characters are drawn from keywords—identified through big data text mining—associated with the drivers of deforestation, such as logging and agriculture, turning the image into a language shaped by its own erasure.
Opportunity
2019 Seoul fringe festival, culture tank, seoul
60min, performance and viewer participatory game, 2019
This new media performance delves into NASA’s pioneering Mars rover Spirit—living perpetually in the shadow of its twin, Opportunity, while waiting silently on the barren Martian surface. Like a cosmic Waiting for Godot, it captures the tension between hope and endless waiting, presence and absence.
A Crunchy Reality
20min, new media performance, 2019
Two people collect sounds—one with a broom, the other with a vacuum. At home, they microwave the sounds to build virtual worlds of their own. One day, their sounds get mixed. Though different, they begin to listen together—and a shared world begins to form.
Art of Tennis
Human Computer Interaction Korea 2019
«Creative Gallery» Jeju International Convention Center
Mockumentary, microsoft kinect, arduino, processing, mixed media, 2 iMac computers, 2019
This work combines an interactive installation—where viewers control a tennis racket and ball tracked by computer vision—with a mockumentary that frustrates the urge to find meaning. The artist speaks grandly yet shows no real connection to the work. It asks: can art only be ‘art’ if it can be put into words?
A Perfect Kiss
2018 Art and technology conference
«Homecoming» Sogang university
20min, new media performance, 2018
In a near future where humans live out their lives alongside artificial intelligence, society censors all sex-related information in an attempt to eliminate desire—and with it, war, conflict, and violence. When a red CENSORED sign appears during a movie, K, who lives with the AI A, begins to question the system.
Nth Doljanchi
2018 Art and technology conference
«Homecoming» Sogang university
Interactive, mixed media, motor, computer, 2 projectors, processing, arduino, 2018
The nth Dol jan chi—a Korean first birthday ceremony where babies pick an object that foretells their fortune—is reimagined through technology. Participants receive a “second birth” by introducing themselves as a computer observes and analyzes them and creates a personalized drink. This intimate exchange unfolds through sight, sound, touch, and taste, exploring new synesthetic dimensions of human-computer interaction around rebirth, fate, and folklore.
Pasta
1min 30sec, two channeled HD video, 2018
Description
Loose relationships are often held together by things more fragile than a shared meal. In this performance, two people eat and feel each other’s presence through thin strands of pasta stretched between their faces.