Porosity Valley 2: Tricksters’ Plot
A sequel to Porosity Valley, Portable Holes (2017), this piece expands upon the previous work through the migration of Petra Genetrix. Juxtaposing refugee migration with data migration, both of which characterize migration in the 21st century, the work creates an imaginary space-time and interrogates the “ways of existence” and the “ways of representation” of a group of Yemeni refugees who recently arrived in South Korea. Further scenes lay out biopolitical control, as experienced by Petra, reflecting the state of affairs in which refugees are treated as a kind of malware.
With
- Yasameen Al-Qaifi (Performer for Stratum)
- Ahmed Mohammed Askar (Performer for Wave)
- Yousef Abdullah Al-Rahmi (Performer for Stone)
- Woochul Im (Gatekeeper)
- Jungeon Park (CPIP Ad Host)
- Alice Evans (Voice for Petra Genetrix)
- Sae-ro-mi Lee (Voice for Mother Rock)
- Sera Jung (Voice for Introduction of "Smart Grid")
Crew
Written and Directed by | Ayoung Kim |
Cinematography | Seokjun Lee |
Montage | Ayoung Kim, Jihyun Min, Yong Jeong |
Music | CIFIKA, Dang-Khoa Chau aka D.K. |
Sound Design | CIFIKA, Daewoong Lim, Sisu Park, Nopitchonair |
Sound | Seunghwan Jeon |
Costumes | Yun.5 Lee, Dahee Choi |
Make-Up | Jiwon Moon |
Assistant Director | Jihyun Min, Sangmin Lee |
Production Manager | Youeun Choi, Seungmin Hong |
Producer | Heejung Oh |
Executive Producer | Heejung Oh |
Produced by
Seesaw Pictures
Ayoung Kim
Ayoung Kim was born in 1979 in Seoul, South Korea, where she currently lives and works. Interested in the notions of crossings, transmissions, transnationals, transpositions, and reversibility, she seeks possible integrations, articulations, and collisions of things in between time, space, structure, and syntax. In doing so, Kim adopts the devices of storytelling, narrativity, and rhetoric to evoke unfamiliar forms of reading, listening, and thinking of the conditions of the world by focusing on unlikely encounters of ideas. The outcomes take the forms of video, voice, sonic fiction, image, diagram, and text, and are exposed as exhibition, performance, theater project, and publication. Recently, Kim has been endeavoring to graft and collide the fictional and the historical together through distorting reality.
Filmography
2011 PH Express; video installation, 11 min. 2012 Please Return to Busan Port; video installation, 5 min. 2017 Porosity Valley, Portable Holes; video installation, 21 min. 2019 Porosity Valley 2: Tricksters’ Plot; video installation, 23 min.
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2020