Traveling 2046 is a performative utterance and personal eulogy that takes the form of a music video artwork. Emblazoned with nonstop prose, hypnotic hooks, and spoken words stitched by means of dream logic, the piece advances without a moment of visual pause or aural silence; relentlessly as time itself. Hyper-stimulating sequences of colorful images generated by 3D body scanners and human/nonhuman AI artists express the temperament of (non)human bodies deeply entangled with the sensorial experiences of ecological, technological, and biopsychosocial time. The project centers the artist’s body as a diffractive prism that urges nonhuman bodies-to-bodies to see with and through others; sensate, harmonize, shimmer, radiate, as a means to co-create narratives of co-existence. Would expanding our sense-abilities allow us to attune to the (un)forgotten and (un)seen embodied memories of the past and present? What yet-to-be imagined stories of the future are we haunted by and what actions can we take in the real-time-now to co-survive with our awakening apparitions in the anthropocene?
BY Laura Hyunjhee Kim (US)
Laura Hyunjhee Kim is a Korean-American multimedia artist who reimagines on/offline (non)human interactions and feelosophical experiences of the body. In 2020, Kim received the Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award and the Black Cube Video Art Award. She is the author of “Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs” (The Accomplices) and coauthor of “Remixing Persona” (Open Humanities Press). Kim is an Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts in Global Performance Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas and lives in the company of neighboring squirrels, birds, and wild rabbits. Chris Corrente works with video, performance, image generation, research, and music. His work is absurdist and discordant, filtering tropes of academia, high art, pop, and corporate culture through the same irreverent lens. Corrente holds a BFA and MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. Currently living and working in New York City, he has performed and shown work at dozens of galleries, music venues, theaters, and museums (ex. SFMOMA, YBCA, CBGB).
