Kiss of Chaos ☆, 2020
Exhibition Looking for Another Family at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Production: Tom Spice Film
Director: Tom Spice
Assistant Director: Kim Jun Won
Production Assistant: Yang Hyun Mo, Um Ki Man
Director of Photography: Lee Gun
1st AC: Park Young Dae
2nd AC: Kim Ji Woong
Gaffer: Kim Ji Ho
Electrics: Lee Hyun Soo
Music Producer: CITY ALONE
Lyrics by Dew Kim
Composed by CITY ALONE
Arranged by CITY ALONE
Choreography: Boohyun Nam
Dancer: Nayoung Kang, Hye Jung Do, Hye Jung Do, Seungwook Yang, Ho Hur, Jaewon Kim, Dehan Hka Son, Mariah Blue
Costume Design & Styling: Dehan Hka Son
Hair & Make Up: Lee Eun Seo
H&M Assistant: Kim Min Joo
Support Costums and Accessories: Fabrique Store, Sehee Kang
Support Place: Seoul Art Space Geumcheon
VFX: Donguk Ko, Bongjun Kim
Edit, Sound Design: Tom Spice
Photographer: Spring
Special Thanks: Kris Ercums, Ji Eun Kim, Tae Yeon Kim, Jinhe Park
Commissioned by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
This work, presented at the 2020 MMCA Asia Project Exhibition, explores the increasingly blurred boundaries of queerness and gender through the lens of shamanism. The project borrows the title The Old and Wrong Way of Seeing Things (2018-2020)—a phrase historically used by Westerners to dismiss shamanism, a spiritual practice in North Asia that they disparagingly referred to as black faith. The piece examines binary concepts such as good and evil, heaven and hell, cause and effect, and subject and object—fundamental to Western religious traditions that emphasize separation—contrasting these with the ritualistic practices and roles of Korean shamanic traditions.
Focusing on the performative aspects of shamanic rituals, the work reinterprets themes of queerness, gender, and even transhuman and posthuman identities through the aesthetic language of a K-pop music video. This fusion of shamanism and popular culture constructs a narrative that challenges conventional notions of identity and spirituality.
Armored Evolver, 2020, industrial material, chains, plastic sheet, fishing line, laser cut stainless steel, dimensions variable. Costume design Dehan Hka Son. Commissioned by MMCA, Korea
Spacecraft FF36, 2019, laser cut stainless steel, led lighting, 180x90x90cm
Welcome, 2019, digital printed on fabric for a blanket, yarn, 150x115cm
Fire Will Keep Your Heart Beating In The Future, 2019, digital printed on fabric, laser cut fabric, embroidery thread, led lighting, wood, lope, laser cut stainless steel, dimensions variable
Honbaek: cloud spirits & white spirits, 2019, traditional Korean mulberry paper, 3d printed bones, projection mapping (looping), 140x250cm
Courtesy of MMCA, Seoul