LIVING THREADS

LIVING THREADS is an installation comprised of 4-channel video and sculptures. The title is a hybrid of the English + Korean words for “living room”. The space embodies a constant state of precariousness and disorientation. The performances are a series of rituals that shift and intervene spaces existing in the private/public, real/imaginary, personal/collective. My mom and sister take part in these rituals with me. Through these multi-dimensional works, I explore the role of tradition and ritual by examining what gets passed down and exchanged, and thus, lost and reimagined. In order to preserve traditions, we reinvent them.

Walls are dressed in pristine fabric and house animated sculptures called wetscapes. wetscapes are a space of constant change. Made of raw clay and water, the fountain-like sculpture subsumes itself for function, while constantly shifting in a cycle of destruction and reconstruction (from clay to slip, repeat). Instead of presenting harmonious representations of “landscape” or even “nature”, wetscapes offer forms that are transient and formless. They are multi-sensory works that engage with sight, sound, and smell - objecting to being an object. Through metamorphosis, I reimagine the expectations of beauty, memory, and time.