K-COSMOSIS 2023 

Media:  suspending sacred textiles, hybrid altar, large-scale projection, experimental 3d animation, procedurally-generated particle simulation 

K-COSMOSIS explores the blended nature of cosmologies within Korean metaphysics. Weaving an intricate tale of relationality, the piece brings together multiple narratives across time and space, celebrating a multifaceted understanding of history, identity, ideology, and mythology. Viewers experience the synthesis of a divided yet intra-related universe, where perceived boundaries are blurred, and things and thoughts are not independently formed but emerged out of entanglement with a plurality of others.

Informed by the Feminist and Queer philosophies of quantum physics, the piece uses procedurally-generated particle systems to imagine the world through an ongoing blending. Viewers are invited to see the world through osmosis rather than duality to reveal a profound sharedness and connection.

In today's global society where boundaries between cultures, ideologies, and identities are rigidly drawn, K-COSMOSIS subverts these divides, highlighting the inherent relationality and inter-subjective nature of our reality. Viewers experience thought and matter as non-linear and inter-constitutive, where multiple dimensions of meaning haunt one another to construct the narratives and fictions that dictate our experience of reality. Deeply rooted in an experimental, interdisciplinary, and process-based approach, the piece uses digital particles to embody a philosophical narrative of interconnected flux.