BP Hall and Grand Avenue Lobby, Walt Disney Concert Hall
June 3–10, 2025
An integral part of GYOPO Diasporic Refractions were artworks by two Seoul-based artists. Debuted at the Korean Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, siren eun young jung’s A Performing by Flash, Afterimages, Velocity, and Noises (2019) probes questions around gender, tradition, and emancipatory possibilities. The audio-visual installation is based on ten years of research on yeoseong gukgeuk, a genre of Korean theater in which all roles, uniquely and subversively, are performed by women actors. A Performing by Flash, Afterimages, Velocity, and Noises manifests a queer aesthetics and politics through provocative gestures that break free from conventional genre performances and evocative interventions of light, speed, movement, and sound.
Heecheon Kim’s 커터3 CutterIII (2023) takes inspiration from the absence of time in video games and the disorienting white cube architecture of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Seoul, Korea. The work was created using a “game engine,” a software platform for developing video games, and represents real-world locations within randomly shuffled speculative scenarios, structurally revealing the spatiotemporal conditions imposed upon us.