![]() ![]() The Same Track is a video work using archival footage of Commonwealth Games athletes, spectators, and administrators cut together with images of economic and promotional activity in various British colonies and Commonwealth states. Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi – The Same Track – 04:03 – 2022 ![]() Ecstatic and melancholic, her work traces collective belief and reverie that underlie absurd sociopolitical phenomena. Yun Choi is a current resident of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. Through the fantastical embodiment of vernacular culture, her practice activates a society into multi-body beings, manifesting the contemporary psyche. Yun Choi (1989) collects images, words and behaviours marked by South Korean banality and remixes them for her videos and multimedia installations. Choi leans into this malfunctioning of seemingly unquestionable words and images that populate restless Seoul, trapped in perpetual weariness and emptiness. This repetition renders the word all at once meaningless and desirable. The recurring motif throughout the film is the word “마음: Ma-eum” (meaning “heart” or “mind”), which is repeated, exhausted and stripped of its nuances and authenticity. The film is structured around five poems written by the artist each draws on a word (over)used in political rhetorics, aphorisms and memes in the Korean language and acts as a prompt for absurd worldbuilding. Colliding references to the horror genre with pop spiritualism, Choi choreographs feelings of disillusionment induced by the pressure to constantly “upload” and “update”. The resulting film enacts a trance-like ritual–a dramatic monologue, ghostly rave party and wistful self-affirmation–with an animistic imagination. Questioning the fast cycle of cultural production, Choi recycles her exhibition into a context and material for a shapeshifting film in which a group of performers play the spirit medium of the unattended. Where the Heart Goes_Poetry Collection is a disorienting film that embodies the fatigue and emptiness of material culture and its blinding optimism. ![]() Yun Choi – Where the Heart Goes_Poetry Collection – 17:15 – 2022 The selection was made by Karen Archey, curator of contemporary art Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, artist Ghita Skali and Marian Cousijn, programmer at Eye. Immerse yourself in the films and video works of artists from the residencies and galleries. Amsterdam Art teams up with Eye Filmmuseum in organising a film program on the big screen, featuring the best new moving image based works Amsterdam’s art scene has to offer. ![]()
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