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Opening Event: Running at the Speed of Light, the Body Becomes a Turtle, Yun Choi

5 November, 2022
– 5 November, 2022
4pm – 5.15pm
Camden Art Centre
Where the Heart Goes_Poetry Collection, Yun Choi, 2022

A screening (partly) with live vocals or sonic readings to celebrate the opening of the upcoming solo exhibition by South Korean artist Yun Choi. 

For this screening event at the Camden Art Centre, Choi presents her new and recent films ahead of her solo exhibition Running at the Speed of Light, the Body Becomes a Turtle due to open at LUX on 9 November 2022.

The screening will begin with a moment of embodied listening led by Choi and artist and poet Christopher Kirubi. Together they will activate the space through live vocals, sonic reading and collective breathing, responding to the expressive potential of language explored in Choi’s films. The audience is invited to participate in the activation.

 

Films by Yun Choi in the programme:

Where the Heart Goes_Calling Cells, Yun Choi (2022)

Doomsday Video, Yun Choi (2020)

Viral Lingua, Yun Choi and Minhwi Lee (2018)

Where the Heart Goes_Poetry Collection, Yun Choi (2022)

 

This opening event is presented with thanks to Camden Art Centre.

 

Yun Choi collects images, words and behaviours marked by South Korean banality and remixes them for her videos and multimedia installations. Through the fantastical embodiment of vernacular culture, her practice activates a society into multi-body beings, manifesting the contemporary psyche. Ecstatic and melancholic, her work traces collective belief and reverie that underlie absurd sociopolitical phenomena. 

The exhibition at LUX presents two films that explore language as a bodily experience: the latest rendition of Choi’s film Where the Heart Goes_Poetry Collection (2022), and Viral Lingua (2018), a collaborative film made with musician Minhwi Lee. Grounded in the embodied writing practice, these films animate words through utterances, visual symbolisms and bodily movements to enunciate gut feelings that challenge logic. 

Running at the Speed of Light, the Body Becomes a Turtle, Yun Choi will be on view from 9 November to 10 December at LUX

The exhibition is presented in the context of the LKFF 2022: Artist Video Strand (3 – 17 November 2022)

 

Yun Choi is an artist who is interested in verbal play, belief system, different forms of display, odd customs, ritual chanting, telecommunication, collections of residues, sincere superstitions, mediated bodies, hypermedia, and non-linear storytelling.  

Christopher Kirubi is a London based artist and poet. Their forthcoming debut collection is coming out 2023 with the87press.

Auditory/Visual Access: The films in the exhibition are in Korean with English subtitles.

Sensory Access: The films contain flashing lights and patterns, and loud sounds including musical compositions and vocal expressions.

 

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