Screenings
Petrogenesis, Petra Genetrix 2019, 2021
digital, colour, sound; 7 min
Mongolian with English subtitles
Having travelled to Mongolia in 2019 to research its animistic belief system, Kim brings the narrative of the Mother Rock, considered to be the source of all human life, into dialogue with the view of the earth’s strata as a critical source of energy and data storage. Kim constructs a fictional narrative around the mineral/data cluster, Petra Genetrix, who navigates issues of migration by floating in the space between the earth’s strata and national borders.
Porosity Valley 2: Tricksters’ Plot 2019
digital, colour, sound; 23 min
English, Korean and Arabic with English subtitles
In response to anti-refugee sentiment triggered by the recent arrival of Yemeni refugees in Korea, Kim depicts the migration of Petra Genetrix to the data island ‘Crypto Valley’. The cluster is met with hostility by the local authorities, who view this new arrival as a malicious security threat, and consequently confine Petra to an alien detention centre known as the ‘Smart Grid’. However, upon escaping the facility, they encounter an external world of porous borders facilitating the passage and exchange of people.
Delivery Dancer’s Sphere 2022
digital, colour, sound; 25 min
Korean with English subtitles T
his Golden Nica award winning video was developed during the COVID-19 pandemic when Kim was confined to Korea. It centres on two female delivery drivers, Ernst Mo and En Storm, cleverly named anagrams of ‘Monster’, who work for the ‘Delivery Dancer’ platform in a futurist Seoul. The protagonist, Ernst Mo, is a top-level ‘Dancer’ who elegantly navigates the labyrinthine streets of this shimmering city on her motorcycle at the speed of light. Throughout her deliveries, she repeatedly encounters her alter ego, En Storm, whose presence delays the completion of each job until the system of optimisation itself begins to crack and potentially collapse.
