Stills of performance-based film, Blood Memory (2021-2022)
Blood Memory is a series of filmic performances reimagining Korean ancestral rituals centered on blood memory, a practice that allows participants to recall and embody memories of their ancestors.
Thinking of premodern coastal villages, female shamans, the Korean War, the loss of entire lineages when the nation split in two, migration, and the sacrifices made by diasporic communities, we explore our roots. Performances are centered on land, imagined as a conduit to the sacred and symbolic of ancestral connection. Movements simultaneously are offerings to the land and draw energy, life-force, from it. They speak to deeply personal and familial experiences of change and historical moments that launched generations of trauma and healing.
In collaboration with artists Nicholas Oh and Antonius Bui, dance/choreographer Sohye Kim and Pilgyun Jeong.
Filmed in locations: Kauai, the Korean Demilitarized Zone, Hudson Valley, Farm Colony in Staten Island
Blood Memory is a series of filmic performances reimagining Korean ancestral rituals centered on blood memory, a practice that allows participants to recall and embody memories of their ancestors.
Thinking of premodern coastal villages, female shamans, the Korean War, the loss of entire lineages when the nation split in two, migration, and the sacrifices made by diasporic communities, we explore our roots. Performances are centered on land, imagined as a conduit to the sacred and symbolic of ancestral connection. Movements simultaneously are offerings to the land and draw energy, life-force, from it. They speak to deeply personal and familial experiences of change and historical moments that launched generations of trauma and healing.
In collaboration with artists Nicholas Oh and Antonius Bui, dance/choreographer Sohye Kim and Pilgyun Jeong.
Filmed in locations: Kauai, the Korean Demilitarized Zone, Hudson Valley, Farm Colony in Staten Island