2017. Two-channel video, galvanized steel, vinyl, acrylic transfer, PU fish, Gundam Barbatos 6th Form, glass, plastic, air locks, effect light, coarse salt, gochugaru (Korean pepper flakes), sesame seeds, water.
Anthropiscine War Machine is a video installation that continues the mythology established in previous works of a future scenario where humanity is forced to adapt to an Earth covered entirely by water. The piece uses water-resistant materials—plastics, glass, galvanized steel—to texture a world fabricated shortly after a catastrophic event, when salvage from a land-dwelling time had become the primary means of production. Water drips down the structure from the bottles above and pools in a line of glass jars filled with coarse salt and gochugaru, enacting an exploded fermentation process and preservation technique towards a post-apocalyptic kimchi.
The video refracts a semi-autobiographical history of a family’s escape from the Korean War into a narrative unveiling of a hypothetical water-dwelling species, inferred through references to creatures both real and folkloric, all of whom are subject to human-wrought environmental violences.
Installation view at SOHO20 in Brooklyn, NY. On view February 8–March 11, 2018.
Installation view at SOHO20 in Brooklyn, NY. On view February 8–March 11, 2018.