Haeju Kim
Seoul, Korea

“Tell me a story, Dance me a move”

Haeju Kim invites three artists—Ayoung Kim, Jee-Ae Lim, and Genevieve Quick—and introduces their different approaches to the issue of migration. Tell me a story, Dance me a move looks to use the practice of constructing narratives to express the complex emotions and situations intrinsic to the experience of migration. The three artists of Tell me a story, Dance me a move are individually involved in historical research, interviews, on-site investigations, and other examinations of fact, while at the same time introducing stories, rooted in the issue of migration, created through their artistic interpretations and imagination.
 
Ayoung Kim's new work, Porosity Vallery: Portable Hole 2, is mainly based on her research in Mongolia and among refugees living in South Korea. With this project, Kim attempts an allegorical, symbolic shift in the concepts of geopolitics, folktales, of minerals and other materials, taking into account migrations in East Asia (including North and South Korea and Mongolia), to present a microcosm in which real-world agents and elements are transported and reconstructed in unrealistic ways. With Mountain, Tree, Cloud and Tiger, Jee-Ae Lim addresses the discourse of post-exoticism in transmigrant society by means of traditional and contemporary dance languages. The performance version will be presented at Sophiensaele in Berlin; the video documentation, along with the photographs and documents collected, will be presented for the project exhibition in Gwangju. In the video installation and dance performance Planet Celadon: Our Receiver Is Operating, Genevieve Quick imagines Asian American identity through a science fiction narrative that explores the challenges of communicating with a distant place and culture. Embracing her own hybridity and displacement, Quick imagines the Asian American experience as not just a global immigration phenomenon, but an interplanetary migration.