CAMELLA DAEUN KIM
The Rusty Toque | Issue 10 | Visual Art | June 30, 2016
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ / Rage Quit.
Sound / Kinetic Sculpture.
4 x 12 feet. 6:18 minutes.
2015
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ / Rage Quit.
Sound / Kinetic Sculpture.
4 x 12 feet. 6:18 minutes.
2015
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ / Rage Quit.
Sound / Kinetic Sculpture.
4 x 12 feet. 6:18 minutes.
2015
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ / Rage Quit.
Sound / Kinetic Sculpture.
4 x 12 feet. 6:18 minutes.
2015
STATEMENT ON WORK
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ / Rage Quit
Sound / Kinetic Sculpture
4 ′ x 12 ′, 6 minutes 18seconds
2015
The title, Rage Quit is often identifies as (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ , which signifies flipping table emoji when one recalls the work. This installation is comprised of two pots with audio indicating two people sitting at either end of a table that is built intentionally long depicting the invisible emotional distance between two individuals sitting far apart from each other. The auditory-sensory experience of a dinner with others (friends, families and acquaintance)—of overlapping conversations and collective rhythms and sounds of the guttural joy of eating and sharing food together—is a visual depiction of jeong, (Korean cultural emotion, 情 –translated as feeling, love, sentiment, passion, human nature, sympathy, heart in English), which contrasts with the sparse and impotently violent sound of the audio causing the pots to rattle so far apart.
Aluminum pots with moving pot lids and the diegetic sounds extracted from soap operas generate humor while making ironic statements of human nature of wanting faster, easier innovations and how it affects the very essence of humanity, especially our interpersonal relationship. Often people are distracted and/or distract themselves to be with other who are virtually connected or on social media. This invisible distance and the estrangement created by such distraction is what Rage Quit attempts to convey, allowing viewers to ask what it means to be ‘alone’ or ‘together.’
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ / Rage Quit
Sound / Kinetic Sculpture
4 ′ x 12 ′, 6 minutes 18seconds
2015
The title, Rage Quit is often identifies as (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ , which signifies flipping table emoji when one recalls the work. This installation is comprised of two pots with audio indicating two people sitting at either end of a table that is built intentionally long depicting the invisible emotional distance between two individuals sitting far apart from each other. The auditory-sensory experience of a dinner with others (friends, families and acquaintance)—of overlapping conversations and collective rhythms and sounds of the guttural joy of eating and sharing food together—is a visual depiction of jeong, (Korean cultural emotion, 情 –translated as feeling, love, sentiment, passion, human nature, sympathy, heart in English), which contrasts with the sparse and impotently violent sound of the audio causing the pots to rattle so far apart.
Aluminum pots with moving pot lids and the diegetic sounds extracted from soap operas generate humor while making ironic statements of human nature of wanting faster, easier innovations and how it affects the very essence of humanity, especially our interpersonal relationship. Often people are distracted and/or distract themselves to be with other who are virtually connected or on social media. This invisible distance and the estrangement created by such distraction is what Rage Quit attempts to convey, allowing viewers to ask what it means to be ‘alone’ or ‘together.’
CAMELLA DAEUN KIM is an artist and educator who moves fluidly between different media such as performance, drawing, installation, gaming and new media to address the problematics of communication and interpersonal relationships under conditions of globalization and technological ubiquity. Kim often allow for intuitive response, experimentation, playfulness, and humor in my work to raise questions of what it means to be connected, how we relate and/or ought to our environments and people, especially in the digital age. Kim has had recent exhibitions at the New Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles; Wight Gallery, Los Angeles; Fellowship of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Somerset House; London, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Kolkata; and TAG bxl, Brussels. Kim was born in South Korea, raised in Canada and now lives and teaches in Los Angeles after completing her MFA from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Website: camelladaeunkim.com
