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Denotation And Profundity Incheon Art Platform | 2023.6.8-8.15 | Incheon, Korea With Bokyung Kim, Jae-Seong Ryu, Minseok Son, Zoohyeong Song, Yaloo, Hyunsun Jeon, Jihyun Jung -Emma, Single Channel Video, 5min 55sec, 2021 -Gathering Glitches: Laeken Cemetery, KYOTO, Hanoi, Digital collage, 2021-2023 -Mutation Gear, Ceramic, glaze, acrylic paint, bubble wrap, cable tie, plastic tube, fluorescent electric tape, 45*50*15cm, 2021 -Black Memory Map & Inverted, Digital collage printed on canvas fabric, 150*400cm, 2022 Curated by Young-ri Lee Photographed by Kim Hui Cheon, Mediahub

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Peculiar Interface The Outpost | Apr 15-Jul 30, 2023 | Hanoi, Vietnam With Ryoji Ikeda, Ip Yuk-Yiu, Kaz Watabe, SMACK, Mario Klingemann, Shinseungback & Kimyonghun, Nguyên Hoàng Giang -Afterccloud | Sammây, Single Channel Video, 16:9, 13m 44s, 2022 -Mutation Gears, Ceramic, Acrylic Paint, Glaze, Cable Tie, Chain, LED Sticks, 28*14*5cm, 22*22*7cm, 18*7*5cm, 2021 The idea for Peculiar Interfaces struck me while I was revisiting my favorite childhood manga - Doraemon. Suddenly, it dawned on me that many futuristic gadgets in the four-dimensional pouch of this beloved time - traveling cyborg have now become indispensable items in our life. From free video calls to translation devices, from street maps to artificial intelligence, digital applications are part of our reality. In a relatively short breath of time (30 years), technological marvel has put us in awe yet also created considerable anxiety. If those tools Brough not only benefits but also complications for Doraemon and his friends, what would be the cultural impact of advanced technologies and the digital space on our 21st-century society?

Through the works of 8 artists and artist collectives, Peculiar Interfaces opens up conversations on: a hybrid reality (whereby the physical and virtual worlds increasingly intertwine); the meaning of data in the age of algorithms (rethinking text, imageries and sound in the age of meaning-making through datafication and machine learning); posthumanism (negotiating what it means to be human in the age of smart machines) as well as connection and care (unpacking the ideas of digital memory, connectivity and dialogues).

This exhibition does not seek to present the convergence points of art and technology. Rather, it aims to examine how the amplifying presence of advanced technologies is impacting our relationships with one another and the world around us. 

Written and Curated by Lê Thuân Uyên

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Afterccloud as Part of ‘Islandwide Coverage’ by AWKNDAFFR Oct 2022 - Mar 2023 | Singapore Biennale 2022  -Afterccloud, single channel video, 13min 44sec, 2022 -Cloud Ruin, glaze, acrylic, waste wire, memory, aluminum ring, seashell, glue on Ceramic, 25*14*15cm, 2022  -Black Memory Map, Digital collage printed on linen, 110*273cm, 2022 In this day and age where data and transportation networks make up the vernacular of everyday life, infrastructural and information systems generate conveniences, mobility, and the circulation of bodies and data while also bringing about acceleration and sensory overload. But within the dense tangle of predetermined pathways and programmable routines, is it still possible to get lost?

Intrigued by this question-provocation, AWKNDAFFR explores the circuitry of movement in the multi-site, multi-authored project, Islandwide Coverage. Activating a variety of vantage points (on the move, from above, within this existential plane and from somewhere other), AWKNDAFFR attempts to delineate from a well-worn terrain, navigating towards a sense of nowhereness (but not lost), as they invite audiences to wander on and off beaten paths around the island as a passenger-viewer.

Teaming up with artists and collaborators who act as interlocutors in different vehicles and venues, the artworks are asynchronously integrated into the movement and mechanism of each vehicle or venue. This way, it transforms an encounter that takes place in familiar surroundings, and transports the passenger-viewer into new frames of relational and sensorial experience on each journey and at each portal. - AWKNDAFFR is an artistic operation led by Wayne Lim and Soh Kay Min. For Islandwide Coverage they collaborate with Areumnari Ee (KR), ila (SG) and Ang Kia Yee (SG), Ranu Mukherjee (US), and Extended Asia (ID).

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Gathering Glitches Series: Digital collage printed on canvas, 2021- Laeken Cemetery, 72.7*100cm, 2022 Sunflower, 90*90cm, 2023

Piled up countlessly and randomly with only traces and outlines, this digital collage guide us to an abstract space beyond linearity and representation, toward potential possibilities comprised of dust and particle form. 

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Can, Cannot, and Other Options: Between Defiance and Desire, Towards Fuller Lives $28.00 SGD (purchase link 👆) Edited by Wayne WJ. Lim & Soh Kay Min Published 2021

Bringing together a flavourful rasanblaj of artists and thinkers, Can, Cannot, and Other Options is an anthology of speculative non/fictions, personal and interpersonal confessions, and experimental propositions, that highlights the desires for lives lived fully which have persisted through toxic time and in spite of deep violence. Pathways for other options have always been there all along — the repetitive task of times anew remains, always, to find these paths again.

Contributors: Riksa Afiaty and Theodora Agni, Joshua Babcock, Chand Chandramohan, Stefano Harney, bani haykal, Pitchaya Ngamcharoen and Vinita Gatne (with Areumnari Ee, Dina Mohamed & Duruo Wang ), nor, Nurul Huda Rashid, and Marcus Yee.

This publication is supported by The Substation, and Goethe Institute Singapore.

Designed by CROP Printed by Allegro Print Paper sponsor by RJ Paper

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SUNDAY OPEN KINO: THE LISTENING GROUP 2021, Led by Leon Filter, Sonsbeek 20-24, Arnhem, Netherlands The Listening Group is a communal practice of listening and moving together while conversing about texts and films. Beginning a new trajectory the Listening Group is going to "read films", focusing on queer and feminist contemporary moving image practices that echo struggle, deal with forms of resistance or articulate propositions. https://www.sonsbeek20-24.org/nl/agenda/sunday-open-kino-the-listening-group/ 📸: Ian Clewe

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Delivery Union 4 Poetry, Digital C print, 71.1 * 106.7cm A Bow and Triplet, Digital C print, 71.1 * 106.7cm A Bow and Triplet (Ghost), Digital C print, 33.8 * 50.8cm DU4P (Ghost), Digital C print, 33.8 * 50.8cm

The third cloud is a labor cloud that is constantly refreshed, and specialized in virtual, emotional, and invisible labor. It’s especially vulnerable to people of color, women, and whom in the digital realm, and full of unknown names, exploitation, and unpaid wages.

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Quarantined Chamber of Breathing Bones Catching and Holding Time and Memory 🔊 https://soundcloud.com/mangnari/by-amplifying-the-sound-of-cicada

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Afteraffects | “My Narration Is A Delightful Diversion, Or… “ When a change comes, in what sense and in what way can it be realized and practiced in life? It is a world building in meaning, but in practice it may be a very minor shift of thought or habit. Also, the difference before and after the change may not be huge or heavy, but still holding each other and creating different meanings by opening up the gap between them little by little.

정동이후 | “나의 서사는 즐거운 전환, 혹은...” 어떤 변화가 올 때에, 변화가 온다면 그것은 어떤 의미에서이며 어떤 방식으로 삶에서 실현되고 실천될 수 있을 것인가? 의미적으로는 하나의 세계를 짓는 일이지만 실천적 측면에서는 아주 사소한 작은 생각 혹은 습관의 전환일지도 모른다. 또한 변화 전후의 차이는 서로를 거대하거나 무겁게 가르는 것이 아니라 여전히 서로를 붙잡고 그 사이를 조금씩 벌려가며 다른 의미를 생성해내는 일일 수도 있다.

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www.malade.xyz/the-colony/ - Welcome To The Future Colony ^Calm^And^Strong^As^Mountains^ where ‘The Anxious Grip Kindred’ Resides WithOrWithout Time. ‘불안한 손아귀의 친족들’이 시간이있거나없는채로 거주하는 미래 군락 ^산처럼^고요하고^굳세게^에 오신 것을 환영합니다. This site is for the queer sculptures that have run away from time, space, and a mediatized rhythm, thinking back on the Old Future when the virtual networks are considered as Utopia with infinite possibilities rather than a predeterminate conduit. 이 곳은 가상의 네트워크가 미리 정해진 도관이 아닌 무한한 가능성의 유토피아로 여겨지던 오래된 미래를 생각하며 만들어진, 시공과 미디어적 리듬으로부터 탈출한 퀴어 조각들을 위한 장소입니다. This is not science fiction, network, and mindset, It is psychology-fiction. 이것은 공상과학이 아닙니다, 네트워크와 사고방식, 그것은 심리과학입니다. Please visit the valley of draft_document and encounter the new page. You can read a narrative, including a video. 임시보관된_문서의 계곡에 방문하셔서 새로운 페이지를 만나보세요. 영상이 포함된 서사를 읽어보실 수 있습니다. May The Healthy Virtuality Be With You. 건강한 가상이 당신과 함께 하길 기원합니다. Areumnari & Malade, May 2020 - img: (1) poster (2) screenshot of the web (3) stillcut from the video ‘eggtree’ (4) stillcut from the video ‘eggtree’ 

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New^Sign^Pharmacy

A Certain Space Emphasizes The Ill Sides Of Us It Is An Old World When Things Are Repeating Themselves In The Hospital, Everyone Talks About The Same Thing

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ARCHIVE on 👂 www.0800001216.ch  👉 a voice message project by Ines Marita Schärer

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야만이 종교가 되고 불안이 공기가 될 때: 한국 후기 자본주의에 관한 인프라포에틱 분석 로렌 벌란트의 ‘작인한 낙관’과 사라 아메드의 ‘행복의 약속’을 메인 텍스트로 하여 좋은 삶과 행복이란 개념을 풀어내면서 그것을 향한 욕망, 애착의 투영으로 사회 기반 시설을 바라보며 이야기를 전개했습니다. 하부구조를 바라보는 특정한 시선은 박해천교수의 콘크리트유토피아/아수라장의 모더니티를 참고하였습니다.  

- 아파트와 함께 솟아오르는 욕망 - 그 욕망이 반복적으로 순환하는 지하철 - 종착역에 닿지 못한 배   근현대 역사와 동시대 청년들의 이슈 및 미디어 환경 등을 반영한 초자본주의 비평으로, 어떻게 좋은 삶을 위한 발걸음으로 여겨지는 특정 대상에 대한 욕망이 사회에 의해 형성되며 젊은이들에게 와서 증폭되는가에 관한 글입니다. 동시에 현재 하부구조가 구성하는 무관심한 상황에 맞서 남겨진 것들의 정동에 더 열려 있을 것을 주장합니다.    When Barbarism Is Religion And Anxiety Is Air: An Infrapoetic Analysis of Late Capitalism In South Korea Using the 'Cruel Optimism' by Lauren Berlant and 'The Promise of Happiness' by Sara Ahmed as main texts, I unraveled the concept of 'Good life' and 'Happiness' and developed the narrative looking at infrastructures as a projection of the desire and attachment toward it. For the unique perspective towards infrastructures, I refer 'Concerete Utopia' by Park Hae Cheon. - The desire to rise with the apartment - The subway where the desires circulates repeatedly - The ship that did not reach the final destination It is a late capitalist critique that reflects modern and contemporary history and specially mediatized environment of youth, and it talks about how such desires for certain objects that are believed to be the step for a good life are mould by society and amplified by youth. At the same time, I argue to be open to affects of what’s left to counter the impassive condition that the current infrastructures constitute. 

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Matter of Heart / Heart of Matter 2019, Malade, Rotterdam, Netherlands

From Anxiety To Equanimity: Is this a matter of this mere heart or the heart of all these complexities? For the practitioners of the alienated heart and its reclaim in the time of outsourced life.  By weaving the ancient Greek myth, Spinoza’s affect, and the contemporary psychological theories, I tried to understand the relationship between emotion-affect-heart-self. It is to understand emotion as an essence, not a diagnosis, and further to stand on the side of the feeling/individual against the hierarchical conditions of society.   불안에서 평정으로: 이것이 단순히 마음의 문제일까 아니면 이 모든 복잡성의 핵심일까? 삶의 외주화 시대에 소외된 마음과 그것의 회복을 위해 실천하는 사람들을 위해. 고대 그리스 신화, 스피노자의 정동 이론, 그리고 동시대 심리학 이론을 엮으며 감정-정동-마음-자아의 관계를 이해하고자 한다. 그것은 감정을 진단이 아닌 본질로서 이해하고 나아가 사회의 계층적 조건에 맞서 감정과 개인의 편에 서는 일에 관한 것이다. 

... Even with disaster ahead and ruin imminent, it is better to face them with a smile, and with the head erect, than to crouch at their approach. And, if the fight is for principle and justice, even when failure seems certain, where many have failed before, cling to your ideal... and calmly await the conflict. It has been said that “in patience ye shall win your souls,” and what is this patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life? Sowing as you shall do beside all waters... you may, in the growing winters, glean a little of that wisdom which is pure, peaceable, gentle, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. - AEQUANIMITAS, William Osler, 1917

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How To Understand Darkness As It Is? ✨ Lecture Performance 2018, part of Blugoa’s DAI COOP: Logics of Montage, Arnhem, Netherlands  November Walk in Arnhem through Sonsbeek Park along with the video of an oral history : To give a space for darkness and maybe underwater - where hidden stories - of a woman, ghost, crazy person, etc. - remain. Small objects from breakfast will become our 'ancestral montage' - which go beyond the current timeline and do jump-cuts. Residues weave each other as time goes by and we may not need to know/see all.   여자, 유령, 미친 사람 등의 숨겨진 이야기가 남아있는 - 어둠 어쩌면 물 속에 공간을 주는 일. 아침식사로부터 가져온 작은 사물들은 현재의 시간대를 넘어 점프컷을 하는 우리의 '조상의 몽타주'가 될 것이다. 잔여물은 시간이 지나면서 서로를 엮기에 우리는 모든 것을 알거나 볼 필요가 없을 수 있다.

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When Barbarism Is Religion And Anxiety Is Air: An Infrapoetic Analysis of Late Capitalism in South Korea Thesis, 2018 

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Usghosts Reading performance with 14 Collaged Images Slide 2018, KITCHEN, State of Concept, Athens, Greece An exchanging thought between the melancholy migrant and here at GZ, in the scorching sun, dried symbols, ruins and suspension. Visceral impulses are repeating like rituals and oft-frustrated people are facing dead ends. Would those still be there? My craving is not not being a ghost, but also creating lives for them. 우울한 이민자와 이 곳 그라운드 제로 간의 교차하는 생각들, 불타는 태양, 메마른 상징, 폐허와 유예 안에서. 본능적 충동은 의식처럼 반복되고 종종 좌절한 사람들은 막다른 골목을 마주한다. 그것들이 여전히 거기 있을까? 나의 열망은 유령이 되지 않는 것이 아니라 그들을 위한 삶을 만들어내는 것이다.