한상임展 <XXXS>

한상임 개인전 / HAN SANGLIM Solo exhibition

전시기간_2018.3.31-4.15 오프닝리셉션_2018.3.31(토) 18:00 관람시간_금/토/일 13:00-18:00_주중방문 예약필요 관람문의_010.6607.3859

작가의 글 / Statement

맨눈으로 감지할 수 없는 단계로 들여다보면서, 인체의 90%가 인간 세포가 아닌 미생물로 구성되어 있다는 사실에 매료된다. 미시적인 시선을 통해 서로 다른 종들이 뒤엉켜있는 또 다른 생태계로서의 몸을 발견한다. 몸은 단편적이고 온전한 전체성의 개념이 아닌 파편화된 개체들이 공존하는 장소가 된다.

나는 몸의 부스러기 같은 아주 작은 조각들을 수집하여 페트리 접시에 이식한다. 이 조그마한 생물들의 다이스포라는 접시안에 새로운 생태 환경을 조성한다. 촉각적인 감각은 이미지로 전환되고, 이는 곧 해부학적 움직임 대신 점, 선, 면의 이동, 확대, 회전을 기본으로 하는 3D 모델로 재탄생된다. 3D 미생물들은 시뮬레이션을 통해 서로 상호작용하는 가상 생리학적인 세계를 형성한다. 디지털 미생물들은 서로 충돌하며 부딪히고, 서로를 통과하기도 합쳐지기도 하며, 서로를 반사하고 삭제하기도 한다. 이 합성의 생태계는 애니메이션, 수행적인 비디오, 인터랙티브 등의 형태로 그것의 실재(實在)와 함께 설치된다.

몸의 파편들은 세균에 불과한 존재에서 확대된 이미지, 증폭된 3D 세계, 유형(有形)의 존재를 넘나들며 합성과 자연, 가상과 현실의 하이브리드로 진화한다. 관람자들은 (새롭게 구성된 디지털 개념의 몸속에서 일어나는) 셀 수 없는 변수들이 생성 구조의 무한대적인 변화와 탈영토화되는 예측할 수 없는 무질서한 다원성의 세계로 초대된다. 이러한 혼종적인 신체는 더 이상 인종, 성별, 비만도 등 사회적인 기준으로 재단해왔던 정체성을 가지지 않는다. 우리는 육신으로 부터 분리되어 편재(遍在)한다. 그 파편들은 끊임없이 새롭게 생성된다.

Looking closely at our bodies, I am fascinated by the fact that the human body contains ten times as many non-human microbial cells as human ones. Exploring through a microscopic lens, one can discover an ecosystem full of trans-species entanglements. I focus on the body as a fluctuating domain for fragmented entities rather than a singular, wholesome entity.

I collect people’s debris by transplanting microorganisms from their bodies. This diaspora forms new bionomic environments within petri dishes and the tangible sentiment is transferred as images. I construct a simulated world where the microbes are digitally generated and interact with each other within the virtual physiology, by utilizing 3D graphics software. Instead of joints and muscles: vertexes, edges, and faces are moved, rotated, and scaled. Digital cells and microorganisms collide, bounce, and go through each other; they merge, subtract from, and reflect each other. This synthetic ecosystem is then expressed through animation, performative video and interactive installation, which is juxtaposed with its original source.

Fragments of bodies evolve from marginal presence to magnified images, to augmented 3D forms and then back to tangible reality; a hybrid of synthetic and natural, of the virtual and the real. Audiences are invited to be fully immersed in this pluralistic and unpredictable disorder where innumerable variables are created and structure is continually created, transformed, and de-territorialized. This heterogeneous body dissects socially constructed categories of our bodies such as skin color, sex, or obesity index, which previously determined individual identities. The body continuously iterates being disembodied, fragmented, interstitial, transitional, and emergent.

Artist CV

| Education

2017 MFA, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA

2013 BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL, USA

| Selected Exhibitions & Screenings

2018 xxxs, KNEET, Seoul, South Korea 60Seconds Festivals, Valencia, Spain / Copenhagen, Denmark Right to Re-, UCSC Digital Arts Research Center, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

2017 The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, theworng.org Ars Electronica, Feminist Climate Change, Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz, Austria Delete Me: DMA MFA 2017 Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA Video Vortex XI: Video in Flux @ Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Hotel 18, Kerala, India

2016 Mid-Atlantic LGBTQA Conference: (De)constructing Identities, The Gallery at Greenly Center, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, PA, USA Feminism Media Artivist Biennale, Alternative Visual Culture Factory I-GONG, Seoul, South Korea Free As In, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA Façade Video Festival, Art Today Association, Center for Contemporary art — Plovdiv, The Ancient Bath, Plovdiv, Bulgaria Short Shorts 2016: Jump Cut, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA Interstice: Media Grrrl at Mana Contemporary Open House, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

2015 Addis Video Art Festival: Code 16: 16 videos – 16 countries – 16 concept, Gebre Kristos Desta Center, Alle School of Fine Arts and Design, Addis Abada, Ethiopia Interference: REFLECTING ON COLOR, Color Temperature, IDFX (Stichting Idee-Fixe), Breda, Netherlands Fonlad Digital Arts Festival, 6ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE VIDEO ARTE, Partícula Coimbra – Space for Art and Culture, Coimbra, Portugal Carnival of e-Creativity - The Academy of Electronic Arts, Northern-Eastern Hills University, Shillong, India

2014 COLOGNEOFF2014: Alienated Territories – Alienated Identities – Alienated Memory – Alienated Timelines, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, USA PROYECTOR, Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Matadero Madrid, Madrid, Spain Brave New World (#1), Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany Edible Matters: Food, Culture, & Social Process "What’s Cooking Under The Microscope?", tAd Gallery, Denton, TX, USA 14th Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology: Presence, Immersion and Location, Hygienic Art Gallery, Ammerman Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA CAALTERNATE 2014, Tritriangle, Chicago, IL, USA STREETLIGHT, RomanSusan Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

2013 versus Reality, LeRoy Neiman Center, Chicago, IL, USA Streetside Media, San Diego Media Arts Center, San Diego, CA, USA Cinethesia Feminist Film Festival, Varsity Center For The Arts, Carbondale, IL, USA My story, Nouspace Gallery and Media Lounge, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

2012 Intertwingularity, Tritriangle, Chicago, IL, USA The fifth wall, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, USA PEOPLE VS. SPACE, Richard Gray Gallery Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA LATARXPO, Maclean Center, Chicago, IL, USA