“Either arms, feet, or tongue” performance view at Coreana Museum of Art © Coreana Museum of Art
On July 14, 16, 21, and 22, the Coreana Museum of Art will showcase the performance Either arms, feet, or tongue by artist Bokyung Jun (b. 1979).
Either arms, feet, or tongue is one of the artworks of the c-lab project at the Coreana Museum of Art. C-lab project is an annual program that brings together creators, curators, theorists, and researchers to explore a selected theme through research, exhibition, education, and archiving. C-lab 7.0, which will take place in 2023, will interrogate the role and necessity of the ‘Media-Body’ in a society with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual environments.
Through her video and installation works, the artist Bokyung Jun focuses on the convergence and divergence between humans and technology. In this performance, she examines the relationship between human language and the language derived from AI. The performance consists of randomly selecting words written by the audience before entering the space, and then performing the sentences combined by an AI. The performers perform the sentences, using the AI’s cognitive methods of breaking down language into smaller units or spatializing language. Through this process, the performance attempts to consider and experiment with ‘our body’ instead of a body that belongs to an individual.
Either arms, feet, or tongue presents bodies that understand language in a new way and use it to communicate, evoking an experience that goes beyond familiar linguistic conventions.
