https://yoohana.net Hana Yoo Sun, 14 Dec 2025 09:33:45 +0000 https://yoohana.net en https://yoohana.net/I-Came-for-the-Flowers Sun, 14 Dec 2025 09:33:45 +0000 Hana Yoo https://yoohana.net/I-Came-for-the-Flowers I Came for the Flowers single channel video, square HD, stereo, color, 9’, 2025 Nightmare neon light with glass tube, 28x10, 2025 <img width="1301" height="1736" width_o="1301" height_o="1736" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50013c1ac0f047f20f93ee4b0ae4ee560b1fc172e50f7b933f58897377ba4fb7/BPA_Install_David-von-Becker-56.jpg" data-mid="241788072" border="0" data-scale="71" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50013c1ac0f047f20f93ee4b0ae4ee560b1fc172e50f7b933f58897377ba4fb7/BPA_Install_David-von-Becker-56.jpg" /> &nbsp;I Came for the Flowers, 2025, Installation View BPA// Exhibition 2025 - A place never fully held, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Kunst Raum Mitte, 2025. Photo: David von Becker <img width="1311" height="1966" width_o="1311" height_o="1966" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c4be56ddf29b27419a12ab6a5e310ec67d8b70e90db05bf293704b350b95d6e/BPA_Install_David-von-Becker-61.jpg" data-mid="241788074" border="0" data-scale="71" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c4be56ddf29b27419a12ab6a5e310ec67d8b70e90db05bf293704b350b95d6e/BPA_Install_David-von-Becker-61.jpg" /> <img width="1249" height="1870" width_o="1249" height_o="1870" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe4b8551aa082e2d2ce48f379d3d6c785ec7d0e395a0ab8a8511607ac5f0a867/BPA_Install_David-von-Becker-60.jpg" data-mid="241788073" border="0" data-scale="71" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe4b8551aa082e2d2ce48f379d3d6c785ec7d0e395a0ab8a8511607ac5f0a867/BPA_Install_David-von-Becker-60.jpg" /> Nightmare, 2025, Installation View BPA// Exhibition 2025 - A place never fully held, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Kunst Raum Mitte, 2025. Photo: David von Becker Starting from a study on female frogs feigning death to avoid mating, I Came for the Flowers traces how generational memories of systemic violence against female bodies linger within women across time. Interlacing the visual aesthetics of 1990-2000s South Korea, archival footage of “comfort women” from the 1940s, and personal intimate recordings, the video reflects on the gendered concept of passivity and reimagines “playing dead” as a dreamlike, suspended state in which resistance manifests not only through confrontation, but through stillness, humor, and the fragile instinct to survive. The neon work Nightmare (악몽, written vertically in Korean) recalls the glow of storefront signage from South Korea in the 1960s, when mass sex tourism emerged during rapid postwar development, capturing the transition from military violence to the violence of capital. Sources: Frog Experiment (2023) Drop dead! Female mate avoidance in an explosively breeding frog. R. Soc. Open Sci. 10: 230742. Carolin Dittrich and Mark-Oliver Rödelhttps://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230742 Humboldt University, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems (2018) Book by Emily Jungmin Yoon Ecco/HarperCollins, New York, USA Archive Footage (1945, 1991) War &amp; Women's Human Rights Museum, Seoul, South Korea <img width="1920" height="1920" width_o="1920" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d99078db41372e96d5beb3919e1512fc430af0ca1c51067b684563529ec13c3/A_Cruelty_Special_to_Our_Species_01.jpg" data-mid="241788084" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d99078db41372e96d5beb3919e1512fc430af0ca1c51067b684563529ec13c3/A_Cruelty_Special_to_Our_Species_01.jpg" /> <img width="1660" height="1656" width_o="1660" height_o="1656" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9bc41b23c881515cde7865f587905335d12aabb02bcd7045b60ef5800aa8e516/A_Cruelty_Special_to_Our_Species_02.jpg" data-mid="241788085" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9bc41b23c881515cde7865f587905335d12aabb02bcd7045b60ef5800aa8e516/A_Cruelty_Special_to_Our_Species_02.jpg" /> I Came for the Flowers, still, 2025 https://yoohana.net/Sheep-Balloon Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:43:16 +0000 Hana Yoo https://yoohana.net/Sheep-Balloon Sh**p Balloon lecture performance and installation, 2025 <img width="1728" height="966" width_o="1728" height_o="966" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56923e00993531f556e0596408c6d9e0f1267970e85955a01482833cdb56b7b6/tm25_HanaYoo_ActsofProximity_Photoby_LauraFiorio_0760053-2.jpg" data-mid="227860790" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56923e00993531f556e0596408c6d9e0f1267970e85955a01482833cdb56b7b6/tm25_HanaYoo_ActsofProximity_Photoby_LauraFiorio_0760053-2.jpg" /> the 38th transmediale commission: (near) near but — far, transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin Photo: Laura Fiorio Acts of Proximity No. 01: Sleepless Skies Installation, 2025 3D Printed Sheep, Weather Balloon Since May 2024, North Korea has sent thousands of balloons carrying parcels of waste – including Hello Kitty merchandise, e-waste, cigarette butts, and soil with traces of human faeces – over the border to the Republic of Korea. While politicians in Seoul declare the balloons an act of war, the installation uses the playful form of the primary object in question, the balloon, to explore the ambiguity of the medium and its message. <img width="1200" height="1800" width_o="1200" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ec0786e9b7c5a7896b962bef6c6a48e72570af6a3b72e6e8f068643a305bad2/tm25_HanaYoo_ActsofProximity_Photoby_LauraFiorio_0751809.jpg" data-mid="227860791" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ec0786e9b7c5a7896b962bef6c6a48e72570af6a3b72e6e8f068643a305bad2/tm25_HanaYoo_ActsofProximity_Photoby_LauraFiorio_0751809.jpg" /> Photo: Laura Fiorio Acts of Proximity No. 02: Where Have All the Sheep Gone? Lecture Performance, 2025 Yoo portrays a streamer who regularly broadcasts online to explore forms of ‘non-verbal dialogue’ between South and North Korea, in the process revealing the nonsensical narrative of a love-hate relationship. <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8cd17b6d96e46b5fa26844f0f352bb64a98a3efbeda002c9f70fa249c5bd0aab/tm25_HanaYoo_ActsofProximity_Photoby_LauraFiorio_0730032.jpg" data-mid="227860948" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8cd17b6d96e46b5fa26844f0f352bb64a98a3efbeda002c9f70fa249c5bd0aab/tm25_HanaYoo_ActsofProximity_Photoby_LauraFiorio_0730032.jpg" /> Photo: Laura Fiorio <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d8b731f0df7af58d6a90e59abffeff17e1e304b12c0f7ea976ac5afcf1de0dd/SheepBalloon_IMG.jpg" data-mid="240883818" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d8b731f0df7af58d6a90e59abffeff17e1e304b12c0f7ea976ac5afcf1de0dd/SheepBalloon_IMG.jpg" /> Love&amp;Hate, manipulated found image, Hana Yoo, 2025 https://yoohana.net/Anatomy-Class Sun, 12 Nov 2023 13:41:26 +0000 Hana Yoo https://yoohana.net/Anatomy-Class Anatomy Class (Chap.2)experimental doc., HD, surround 5.1, color and B&amp;W, 18min., 2023 installation, stainless steel mirror, 3800 x 1350, 2025 <img width="2000" height="1126" width_o="2000" height_o="1126" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/820c64f0d3591d6214aabce9d6ae893818e87628f1ed5af2fd25187c28ebb774/AnatomyClass_03.jpg" data-mid="196612105" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/820c64f0d3591d6214aabce9d6ae893818e87628f1ed5af2fd25187c28ebb774/AnatomyClass_03.jpg" /> Anatomy Class (Chap.2) weaves recollections of three individuals who underwent a frog dissection experiment during their youth in a science class. Simultaneously, it juxtaposes the stories with the archival images of Unit 731, creating the dissonance between contexts and exploring nature of violence that arises from such arbitrary ‘dissection of images’. <img width="1344" height="896" width_o="1344" height_o="896" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/582ed8ab493ce40e29e1863323d677fa9981fc8a8943664a766f55427498bbd3/anatomy_sungkok_web.jpg" data-mid="229878865" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/582ed8ab493ce40e29e1863323d677fa9981fc8a8943664a766f55427498bbd3/anatomy_sungkok_web.jpg" />Installation view / Vision and Perspective, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, 2025installation commission: Busan Museum of Art Photo: Cho Youngha <img width="2620" height="1470" width_o="2620" height_o="1470" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5eb48494cf5d60674f50d370333ae12055640664675fd0394e0bd42e2462a62/AnatomyClass_05.jpg" data-mid="196651926" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5eb48494cf5d60674f50d370333ae12055640664675fd0394e0bd42e2462a62/AnatomyClass_05.jpg" /> Anatomy Class Chap2, excerpt, 1min *Supports from Berlin Senate Department for Culture and EuropeWork Stipends of Künstlerinnenprogramm Film/Video and Research Stipends of Fine Arts Arko Art Council Korea https://yoohana.net/Tanu Sun, 21 Jan 2024 18:42:54 +0000 Hana Yoo https://yoohana.net/Tanu Tanu - universe·health·whale·anima single channel video, HD, stereo, color, 9’15’’, 2023 Installation, 2025 <img width="2000" height="1121" width_o="2000" height_o="1121" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/49199a20c71252e162d7b3959df0ae1b1e777c2fba14d0907800a31e6dad0ac3/Tanu05.jpg" data-mid="202382679" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49199a20c71252e162d7b3959df0ae1b1e777c2fba14d0907800a31e6dad0ac3/Tanu05.jpg" /> Tanu, still, 2023 A mystical being emerges from the depths of the river and sea, traversing the monumental landscapes of the city. In response to a controversial proposal by a far-right politician advocating for the privatization of the sea and whales under the guise of 'saving' them, the 'Tanu' project manifests slow resistance against extractivism and potential ecocide. Tanu is re-imagined figure inspired by spiritual rite of Selk’nam, an indigenous group from southern Patagonia(Tierra del Fuego). They were known to deeply connect with cetaceans, especially because finding a stranded whale conveys their temporary settlement and therefore a new generation. They are now considered extinct as a tribe, due to gold mining and the excessive farming in the 20th Century which led to genocide of the Selk'nam. Tanu's path eventually intersects with Malón de la Paz (Peace Incursion), an indigenous sit-in protest group from northwestern Argentina, Jujuy and Salta. This region is distinguished by large-scale lithium mining operations that have inflicted severe environmental contamination. Their 77 years of fight to reclaim their land continues with the spirit of Pachamama. In the installation, the narrative rewinds through five posters, portraying Tanu's emergence as if it were an activist leaflet, yet revealing their binary points. The sixth poster takes inspiration from a poem by Kim Hyesoon (South Korea, 1955), turning a political voice into an imaginative space, exploring spheres between art and activism. <img width="768" height="991" width_o="768" height_o="991" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af35317fa90d7a774fac7c20af9c7d72ee5e6e0f9d8f8ab8cce88b62bfd1c1c4/A-Tanu-impersonator-Selknam-Tierra-del-Fuego-Photograph-by-Martin-Gusinde-1922.png" data-mid="234791906" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/af35317fa90d7a774fac7c20af9c7d72ee5e6e0f9d8f8ab8cce88b62bfd1c1c4/A-Tanu-impersonator-Selknam-Tierra-del-Fuego-Photograph-by-Martin-Gusinde-1922.png" />Tanu at the Hain of 1923 ︎︎︎morePhotograph by Martín GusindeTanu was Xalpen's sister. She represented his authority, acting as a messenger and witness to what was happening in the Hain. More Sources: End of a World. Anne Chapman The Indians of Tierra del Fuego. Martín Gusinde <img width="1800" height="1011" width_o="1800" height_o="1011" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/030aef306dd26287893918eacdf7d58d12af82b64326f32745ef02f5f819819f/Tanu07_smaller.jpg" data-mid="202382574" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/030aef306dd26287893918eacdf7d58d12af82b64326f32745ef02f5f819819f/Tanu07_smaller.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1119" width_o="2000" height_o="1119" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db9154c1281b099da51d95cc9a6d86f09de4405ab49c1563b4ff12de98587e82/Tanu03.jpg" data-mid="202382678" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db9154c1281b099da51d95cc9a6d86f09de4405ab49c1563b4ff12de98587e82/Tanu03.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1121" width_o="2000" height_o="1121" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06d5f04a546e8740c2d66e149c816cc756b9e4575db817fe4dce9608c86f66cf/Tanu02_smaller.jpg" data-mid="202382677" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06d5f04a546e8740c2d66e149c816cc756b9e4575db817fe4dce9608c86f66cf/Tanu02_smaller.jpg" />Tanu, still, 2023 <img width="1398" height="1049" width_o="1398" height_o="1049" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9f81e929a222cac0e8f1df6a7123dca53c25287b25bc45b7b8e2420d4c32ada/DSCF6421_small.jpg" data-mid="225363247" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9f81e929a222cac0e8f1df6a7123dca53c25287b25bc45b7b8e2420d4c32ada/DSCF6421_small.jpg" /> <img width="1398" height="1049" width_o="1398" height_o="1049" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab5924679f7af51ede40ccb52b000cdd22337681efaf45677be67f3a6199b347/DSCF6409-02_small02.jpg" data-mid="226251860" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab5924679f7af51ede40ccb52b000cdd22337681efaf45677be67f3a6199b347/DSCF6409-02_small02.jpg" />Installation view &lt;We may be separated like islands, but,&gt;, Daegu Art Factory, South Korea, 2025 Photo: Soo-whan Park The Sea is Not Private6 poster series, digital print, 841 x 1189, 2023-2025 1. EL MAR NO ES PRIVADO&nbsp; 2. EL MAR NO ES PÚBLICO&nbsp; 3. LA TIERRA NO ES PRIVADA&nbsp; 4. LA TIERRA NO ES PÚBLICA&nbsp; 5. EL ESPACIO NO ES PRIVADO&nbsp; 6.&nbsp;¿Alrededor de quién va a girar la luna cuando ya no esté la tierra? 1. The Sea is Not Private&nbsp; 2. The Sea is Not Public&nbsp; 3. The Land is Not Private&nbsp; 4. The Land is Not Public&nbsp; 5. The Space is Not Private&nbsp; 6. Who will the Moon circle When the Earth dies?1. 바다는 사유물이 아니다&nbsp; 2. 바다는 공공의 것이 아니다&nbsp; 3. 땅은 사유물이 아니다&nbsp; 4. 땅은 공공의 것이 아니다&nbsp; 5. 우주는 사유물이 아니다&nbsp; 6. 지구가 죽으면 달은 누굴 돌지? *The project is realized within the international residency program supported by Arko Art Council Korea, and Projecto ACE, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://yoohana.net/Elbowroom Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:44:29 +0000 Hana Yoo https://yoohana.net/Elbowroom Elbow RoomInstallation, 2022 Berlin Art Prize, Acud Galerie, Berlin <img width="2470" height="1647" width_o="2470" height_o="1647" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ce5254d1cf8affc8e5adf985af6c23dc0f82fdbd64de709758fcf1cfd0c0f31/BAP22_Hana-Yoo_ACUD-Galerie_Credit-Sandra-Gramm_6.jpg" data-mid="165329793" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ce5254d1cf8affc8e5adf985af6c23dc0f82fdbd64de709758fcf1cfd0c0f31/BAP22_Hana-Yoo_ACUD-Galerie_Credit-Sandra-Gramm_6.jpg" /> <img width="2317" height="1545" width_o="2317" height_o="1545" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74681ef20744e9ce81d6a312f736bcad368381ab90c76323b5133debae9ada3f/BAP22_Hana-Yoo_ACUD-Galerie_Credit-Sandra-Gramm_1.jpg" data-mid="165329947" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74681ef20744e9ce81d6a312f736bcad368381ab90c76323b5133debae9ada3f/BAP22_Hana-Yoo_ACUD-Galerie_Credit-Sandra-Gramm_1.jpg" /> <img width="1624" height="1083" width_o="1624" height_o="1083" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c17c7dd342fe45574476dbdc8cdb51f4be74301328e527802d2270d247f49877/BAP22_Hana-Yoo_ACUD-Galerie_Credit-Sandra-Gramm_5.jpg" data-mid="164293048" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c17c7dd342fe45574476dbdc8cdb51f4be74301328e527802d2270d247f49877/BAP22_Hana-Yoo_ACUD-Galerie_Credit-Sandra-Gramm_5.jpg" /><img width="2730" height="1820" width_o="2730" height_o="1820" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9eaf12bedde3d419da6f4e4036685ae45afe76733deb4af1fde69a408f7c4c7e/BAP22_Hana-Yoo_ACUD-Galerie_Credit-Sandra-Gramm_4.jpg" data-mid="165329792" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9eaf12bedde3d419da6f4e4036685ae45afe76733deb4af1fde69a408f7c4c7e/BAP22_Hana-Yoo_ACUD-Galerie_Credit-Sandra-Gramm_4.jpg" /> <img width="2715" height="1810" width_o="2715" height_o="1810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df03d46d886b8b24ca0694e65cf3c53405fcf28df682b6fa212d4ea4a75f5f3b/BAP22_Hana-Yoo_ACUD-Galerie_Credit-Sandra-Gramm_3.jpg" data-mid="165329791" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df03d46d886b8b24ca0694e65cf3c53405fcf28df682b6fa212d4ea4a75f5f3b/BAP22_Hana-Yoo_ACUD-Galerie_Credit-Sandra-Gramm_3.jpg" /> <img width="793" height="1190" width_o="793" height_o="1190" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ce70f9a3082677cefe16730dcece5c528b2d2d44d12b6c5dc5f8cd0e06b18b0/BAP22_Hana-Yoo_ACUD-Galerie_Credit-Sandra-Gramm_2.jpg" data-mid="164293043" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/793/i/3ce70f9a3082677cefe16730dcece5c528b2d2d44d12b6c5dc5f8cd0e06b18b0/BAP22_Hana-Yoo_ACUD-Galerie_Credit-Sandra-Gramm_2.jpg" /> Hana Yoo’s (Busan, South Korea) overarching thesis, questions the complex power system of hierarchical positions through storytelling. This interest places the artist’s practice in a denunciatory tone of capitalist behaviors, underlying in our everyday political and social realities. Through two video works, the exhibition establishes itself as a provocation: What defines our identity and how is it being manipulated? If the eyes are a mirror to your soul, an opposite picture is painted if you can’t look in someone’s eyes. By dissolving the human aspect, pointing it towards a more machinal state, oppressive behaviors and tools become easier to maintain in a well sealed environment. Bare Life (2021), a loosely structured narrative film, introduces “the place” through a vague description of a prison and a first hand experience of an escape story. The narrator is portrayed anonymously, with a cloth masking their face, a sign which reflects the extent of the prisoner's effects as a refugee and victim. In parallel, the testimony is mixed with non sequential archival footage. First amateur videos of air gun demonstrations, used by pest controllers and secondly technical videos of testing labs which use AI technology in order to detect pain in rats. The obscure pairing between the rat and the refugee demonstrates an ironic but critical tone which examines their possible connection nevertheless set in different reality spheres. Comparatively, Your freedom song (2022) is a satirical representation of a popular Korean youtuber following her role as a patriotic figure of South Korean political values. As an escapee of “the place”, the online star triggers a sense of tension while setting side to side the military and strategic capacities of both countries. In between, the artist combines clips from the same gun demonstration footage in its preparation stage, projecting the video to an eerie sense of agitated suspense. This capitalist and western format of “show and tell” excuses and allows war and violence to be accessible to a large range of online users. The characters repetitively present the same arguments in extreme public displays, thus creating a vertigo sensation between the objectification of such sensitive subjects which is then overcome with social mechanisms of approval such as likes, views and comments. By the end, the exhibition should be seen as a continuous loop of anxiety and discomfort, where both realities are complemented and differing simultaneously: a double sided representation of the present context in South Korea. Curatorial Text: Francisca Portugal / Edit: Berlin Art Prize Your Freedom Song 4 channel video, HD, color, stereo, 6’40’’, 2022 <img width="2590" height="364" width_o="2590" height_o="364" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1019eb629767c2dfe2e4ea6af9298d86521e5287b013ecdac2c16b08db39a24b/Screen-Shot-2022-09-10-at-4.23.08-PM.png" data-mid="164294344" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1019eb629767c2dfe2e4ea6af9298d86521e5287b013ecdac2c16b08db39a24b/Screen-Shot-2022-09-10-at-4.23.08-PM.png" />Your freedom song, still, 2022 <img width="2378" height="1585" width_o="2378" height_o="1585" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec5e21962f5a05ba3eeb18fde38ebec1fdb6414f8f3e4973856915c3b92c2dd9/IMG_4795.jpg" data-mid="165329795" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec5e21962f5a05ba3eeb18fde38ebec1fdb6414f8f3e4973856915c3b92c2dd9/IMG_4795.jpg" /> Your freedom song, installation view All Photos: Sandra Gramm, Courtesy of the Berlin Art Prize https://yoohana.net/Chambers Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:10:17 +0000 Hana Yoo https://yoohana.net/Chambers ChambersInstallation, 2021Post territory Ujeongguk, Seoul <img width="1728" height="1152" width_o="1728" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79f21a0a1dc76107028cea5f2b09bee2e86670e11902b9250f4e3a55021839dc/03.jpg" data-mid="164286835" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79f21a0a1dc76107028cea5f2b09bee2e86670e11902b9250f4e3a55021839dc/03.jpg" /> <img width="1728" height="1152" width_o="1728" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/965e863152d1e10c774d689bf00162a26971b8c2b07ef74b2131b772b9783767/01.jpg" data-mid="164286833" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/965e863152d1e10c774d689bf00162a26971b8c2b07ef74b2131b772b9783767/01.jpg" /> <img width="2080" height="1386" width_o="2080" height_o="1386" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b2e453cf9d2a6aa18df95d852bb457202f8a5b717aee257243bf685ef32849e/09.jpg" data-mid="165330356" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b2e453cf9d2a6aa18df95d852bb457202f8a5b717aee257243bf685ef32849e/09.jpg" />Chambers, installation view, Post territory Ujeongguk, 2021 / Photo: Byeonggon Shin <img width="1295" height="911" width_o="1295" height_o="911" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6dbdf3c9f4df92f607b797637b7db135de071791effa9cd8d48644091378f079/Screen-Shot-2021-03-08-at-9.04.02-PM.png" data-mid="101294217" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6dbdf3c9f4df92f607b797637b7db135de071791effa9cd8d48644091378f079/Screen-Shot-2021-03-08-at-9.04.02-PM.png" /> The project 'Chambers' examines the complex interrelationship between laboratory rats, wild rats and machine learning. Within certain cultures and histories, rats are often despised and considered dangerous and harmful and are, therefore, killable. Conversely, in science laboratories, rats are one of the most popular subjects; they are considered useful, highly productive, and also killable. Machines, existing between humans and rats, play a crucial role in revealing their complex sociopolitical implications through categorizing and pattern making. 'Chambers' consists of 3 individual works, Bare Life(film),&nbsp;Arbitrary Radius Circle(3 channel video), and&nbsp;The Fall(Machine Learning generated moving image). Funded bySeoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul Metropolitan GovernmentSociety for informatics(GI), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research <img width="1531" height="933" width_o="1531" height_o="933" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8af1795bf329e0ef6536f3639247a85734249dd12bb354a71b1c1952e86ccc0f/Screen-Shot-2021-03-08-at-9.59.46-PM.png" data-mid="101296959" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8af1795bf329e0ef6536f3639247a85734249dd12bb354a71b1c1952e86ccc0f/Screen-Shot-2021-03-08-at-9.59.46-PM.png" /> <img width="1728" height="1152" width_o="1728" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ab302ff530a2030829b07d46929734aa4b55a82fd1b4c0035e6897914ec7961/06.jpg" data-mid="164286838" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ab302ff530a2030829b07d46929734aa4b55a82fd1b4c0035e6897914ec7961/06.jpg" /> <img width="1728" height="1152" width_o="1728" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/895848bf84665ac6ce5448e1debfb77f0a4d4860f025633ec1c58d3159d53952/05.jpg" data-mid="164286837" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/895848bf84665ac6ce5448e1debfb77f0a4d4860f025633ec1c58d3159d53952/05.jpg" />Arbitrary Radius Circle, The Fall, installation view, 2021 / Photo: Byeonggon Shin <img width="1152" height="1728" width_o="1152" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9caeb4b88985c375f547d6f094e09049b6fdda14bb99988d7b466da565393606/04.jpg" data-mid="164286836" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9caeb4b88985c375f547d6f094e09049b6fdda14bb99988d7b466da565393606/04.jpg" /> https://yoohana.net/Barelife Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:35:03 +0000 Hana Yoo https://yoohana.net/Barelife Bare Lifeshort film, HD, color, stereo, 16'28'', 2021 <img width="1542" height="2011" width_o="1542" height_o="2011" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e891c63a41abb6ceb6096faf15733142059d58542b5272ed8d52a6d3818b6d62/Barelife-Poster_smaller.jpg" data-mid="164292508" border="0" data-scale="43" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e891c63a41abb6ceb6096faf15733142059d58542b5272ed8d52a6d3818b6d62/Barelife-Poster_smaller.jpg" />Bare Life depicts a loosely structured, contested concept of freedom tied to various cases and agents: killing and being killed, machines recognizing pain, and the complex ecosystem of empathy that occurs in response. The film investigates three cases in parallel (the order of cases is not sequential). Case 1 shows archival footage of a pest controller specializing in eliminating wild rats with an air gun. Case 2 introduces an interlocutor whose face is covered, sharing personal stories (as a defector from North Korea) about her idea of freedom and being “inside and outside.” Case 3 describes an experiment from Animal Welfare Laboratory. The project uses deep learning (artificial intelligence) systems to analyze facial expression data of laboratory mice, before and after anesthesia/surgery, suggesting a tool for recognizing the suffering and pain of mice. Funded bySeoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul Metropolitan GovernmentSociety for informatics(GI), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Supported byAir Rifle Pest Control, UK Research inspired byFreie Universität Berlin, Institute of Animal Welfare, Animal Behavior and Laboratory Animal Science <img width="2372" height="1332" width_o="2372" height_o="1332" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe90e0a0b47ba00146421e670b48525d3d61d3b9c8f504fbc4e5350e59ea1b7b/BareLife_still04.jpg" data-mid="164292512" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe90e0a0b47ba00146421e670b48525d3d61d3b9c8f504fbc4e5350e59ea1b7b/BareLife_still04.jpg" /> <img width="2372" height="1331" width_o="2372" height_o="1331" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e00de5dbade1acb75fca96bd64b6e3158e6485df20848c22daf82873003e0ff6/BareLife_still03.jpg" data-mid="164292511" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e00de5dbade1acb75fca96bd64b6e3158e6485df20848c22daf82873003e0ff6/BareLife_still03.jpg" /> <img width="2019" height="1131" width_o="2019" height_o="1131" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/baff6f305f093986aabe1dab594ae796fd8376c1124ce313cb826634fe106cf7/BareLife_still06.jpg" data-mid="164293008" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/baff6f305f093986aabe1dab594ae796fd8376c1124ce313cb826634fe106cf7/BareLife_still06.jpg" /> <img width="2019" height="1134" width_o="2019" height_o="1134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d37452249789d7609d407c51235115d33aa5c4e1c148d83604242fad8d829924/BareLife_still07.jpg" data-mid="164292677" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d37452249789d7609d407c51235115d33aa5c4e1c148d83604242fad8d829924/BareLife_still07.jpg" />Bare Life, still, 2021 BareLife 2021·Trailer, 65''︎Critical Essay“ Bare Life, or Others Who Could Never Become Others ”︎︎︎Yi Jinkyung (EN), Translation: Minji Chun https://yoohana.net/Arbitrary-Radius-Circle Fri, 01 Sep 2023 11:14:07 +0000 Hana Yoo https://yoohana.net/Arbitrary-Radius-Circle Arbitrary Radius Circle3 channel video, HD, color, stereo, 9mins, 2021 <img width="2694" height="1592" width_o="2694" height_o="1592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2534f5975b7befa6a6c3cf9e7c0d9084579a95e53ea840f52726baa8a779091/Arbi_05.jpg" data-mid="189489047" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2534f5975b7befa6a6c3cf9e7c0d9084579a95e53ea840f52726baa8a779091/Arbi_05.jpg" /> Having loosely weaved texts and footage from lectures, poem, and fictional stories, ‘Arbitrary Radius Circle’ speculatively examines the intersection of reinforcement machine learning and popular behavioral psychology, raising questions about the nature of artificiality, as well as the invisibility of animals in labs and their unrecognized labor. ︎ Laboratory Rat, Psychologist and Machine Learning In 1948, a psychologist B.F. Skinner devised an operant conditioning chamber (known as a ‘Skinner box’) to study animal behavior. Using a lever system that a rat presses to gain food inside a chamber, Skinner discovered that the food acts as a ‘reinforcement’ which induces rat’s repetitive behavior. The premise that responses through conditioning shape actions became a pivotal model of Behavioral psychology, and Behaviorists consequently conducted various animal experiments to examine deeper on the learning process and problem-solving of the organism. <img width="600" height="325" width_o="600" height_o="325" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/916607c6bfdc6d807c2dfcb8f57fde60bcb6112b392cb072be9f46a6be8412ea/ailearn4.gif" data-mid="189489181" border="0" data-scale="43" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/916607c6bfdc6d807c2dfcb8f57fde60bcb6112b392cb072be9f46a6be8412ea/ailearn4.gif" /> Now we can witness a rather complex model of learning with Machine Learning (ML), which takes data and algorithms to make a machine ‘learn’ cognitively and utilize this learning in decision making. The project speculates its resonance with Skinner’s basic principle - such as Reinforcement Learning (RL) - which concerns how the agent takes action in an interactive environment in order to maximize reward. Humans are training machines and animals in an analogous learning model, whereas, rather obviously, its purpose and circumstance are divergent. Having concerned the outcome of training deeply intertwined with human behavior and the economics of ecology, the questions arise: Are the anthropomorphized expressions toward nonhumans such as ‘machine, animal learning’, ‘machine intelligence’ the part of ‘becoming’? Is there a new type of empathy emerging through the technical apparatus? What makes the animals in the lab invisible, and their labor unrecognized? <img width="2692" height="1588" width_o="2692" height_o="1588" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01c57f6717d5551c4a219b6d4e137ad28282e0673443df5b96cc6c5acf45c92c/Arbi_04.jpg" data-mid="189489046" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01c57f6717d5551c4a219b6d4e137ad28282e0673443df5b96cc6c5acf45c92c/Arbi_04.jpg" /> <img width="2694" height="1590" width_o="2694" height_o="1590" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/acd3844089cd8b4de93af19f1b98ec183d5567bf2f7bc7e79f3b7c4a2484facc/Arbi_07.jpg" data-mid="189489045" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/acd3844089cd8b4de93af19f1b98ec183d5567bf2f7bc7e79f3b7c4a2484facc/Arbi_07.jpg" />Arbitrary Radius Circle, still, 2021 <img width="1698" height="1152" width_o="1698" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42bf04347557cd7cac3dc247c006960f5f529a2dae9636270fe3d2b2079d7300/07.jpg" data-mid="189489044" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42bf04347557cd7cac3dc247c006960f5f529a2dae9636270fe3d2b2079d7300/07.jpg" /> ︎Critical Essay “Artificiality and Nature under a Microscope”︎︎︎Yi Jinkyung (EN), Translation: Minji Chun https://yoohana.net/The-Fall Fri, 01 Sep 2023 12:34:03 +0000 Hana Yoo https://yoohana.net/The-Fall The Fallmachine learning generated moving image, unity, non-stop playing, 2021 “Is outside of the chamber, a failure, escape, death, or rebellion?” The 3D-game-object-rats were trained for 23 seconds to perform a specific task in a specific area by machine learning algorithm. As a result, most rats failed (did not perform) the task and fell out (escaped) from the 66 chambers. After a certain period of time, the rats were summoned back to the original area and the process was repeated for as long as the program ran. The black lines in the graphic were generated by the movement of the algorithm’s agent (rat) which indicates their behavioral pattens, and the omnipotent-perspective rotates around them. <img width="1728" height="1152" width_o="1728" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0d51e3a9db4c79f22a5e04837ca9631b6fad64aa4a66036f1e255a67c189ef1/10.jpg" data-mid="189493098" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0d51e3a9db4c79f22a5e04837ca9631b6fad64aa4a66036f1e255a67c189ef1/10.jpg" /> <img width="1728" height="1152" width_o="1728" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/015b4b33fab9269ba5f68f307dddd725c9c4542aa0d292f99196af1aff2a1582/11.jpg" data-mid="189493097" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/015b4b33fab9269ba5f68f307dddd725c9c4542aa0d292f99196af1aff2a1582/11.jpg" />The Fall, installation view, 2021 / Photo: Byeonggon Shin <img width="1712" height="922" width_o="1712" height_o="922" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4865d05c1107aed9bc406662eeb292f2c7000cff6eaecdfdfbc64421562df8f2/02.jpg" data-mid="189493176" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4865d05c1107aed9bc406662eeb292f2c7000cff6eaecdfdfbc64421562df8f2/02.jpg" /> <img width="1711" height="923" width_o="1711" height_o="923" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ba469eb66aeacfc6d327db0b93e0546af6454f37337aab5f552d68365437627/01.jpg" data-mid="189493182" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ba469eb66aeacfc6d327db0b93e0546af6454f37337aab5f552d68365437627/01.jpg" /> ︎Critical Essay“ Did the Falling Line Kill the Circle? ”︎︎︎Yi Jinkyung (EN), Translation: Minji Chun https://yoohana.net/Hysteric-C Fri, 18 Dec 2020 16:40:57 +0000 Hana Yoo https://yoohana.net/Hysteric-C Hysteric C (2020) sculpture, PLA, stainless steel, aluminum, 80x30x30, 2020 installation, wooden chair, birth control pills, print on canvas, 2020Splendour in the grass 4K, color, stereo, 17:17min., 2020 <img width="2304" height="1428" width_o="2304" height_o="1428" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/509b0ac1962872cf52302530dfe2a13fe16386b7ad29d753a054a35567ce8fb1/01.jpg" data-mid="92560046" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/509b0ac1962872cf52302530dfe2a13fe16386b7ad29d753a054a35567ce8fb1/01.jpg" />Installation view / Hysteric C, solo show, Diskurs Berlin <img width="2304" height="1428" width_o="2304" height_o="1428" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc6ec007653ffd7c5bb60cbe7b4bbb26095804eab4c43876af2843bb27baef3d/02.jpg" data-mid="92560045" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc6ec007653ffd7c5bb60cbe7b4bbb26095804eab4c43876af2843bb27baef3d/02.jpg" /> <img width="2120" height="1416" width_o="2120" height_o="1416" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/379a865d6a877870aa909293bb09a2b016cb6e7ff54e1579bda6f5f3b9233af6/07.jpg" data-mid="92560040" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/379a865d6a877870aa909293bb09a2b016cb6e7ff54e1579bda6f5f3b9233af6/07.jpg" /> <img width="2120" height="1416" width_o="2120" height_o="1416" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85d0ebb9deb8ceb4f84a1dd2241674454964f40c9f311bdc5e0dad24aa30f512/04.jpg" data-mid="92560043" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85d0ebb9deb8ceb4f84a1dd2241674454964f40c9f311bdc5e0dad24aa30f512/04.jpg" /> <img width="2120" height="1416" width_o="2120" height_o="1416" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1bdd23d7e4d38ce6a6d119de2abf4ce063ba749909ef4e205b8fa11af2f8a336/05.jpg" data-mid="92560042" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1bdd23d7e4d38ce6a6d119de2abf4ce063ba749909ef4e205b8fa11af2f8a336/05.jpg" /><img width="2120" height="1416" width_o="2120" height_o="1416" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e593d2f8b1bbd4f720d96a09d263ebfbd9e4a83c0a24852030f2eb504790520/08.jpg" data-mid="92560039" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e593d2f8b1bbd4f720d96a09d263ebfbd9e4a83c0a24852030f2eb504790520/08.jpg" /> <img width="2120" height="1416" width_o="2120" height_o="1416" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/085f285f9961f1c9a4ed55cf4d541a709911166b88e15046d43ba56beec81164/06.jpg" data-mid="92560041" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/085f285f9961f1c9a4ed55cf4d541a709911166b88e15046d43ba56beec81164/06.jpg" /> <img width="2120" height="1416" width_o="2120" height_o="1416" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31b2aa7a7d9052b8bd21fd59ccc775895a1341ad70f400626f340842ff8133e3/09.jpg" data-mid="92560038" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31b2aa7a7d9052b8bd21fd59ccc775895a1341ad70f400626f340842ff8133e3/09.jpg" /> Hysteric C (2021)installation, cow milk cups, stainless still hoses, 2021Splendour in the grasstwo channel video, 4K, color, stereo, 13min., 2020 <img width="1872" height="1280" width_o="1872" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ad553cdec36d464c41d5c6480a3693c3085e646604d643b47cd33132d86a765/MutualMatters_small02.jpg" data-mid="164284802" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ad553cdec36d464c41d5c6480a3693c3085e646604d643b47cd33132d86a765/MutualMatters_small02.jpg" />Mutual Matters, FahrbereitschaftPhoto: Sebastian Eggler <img width="1450" height="1600" width_o="1450" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66e449b4578b02ea3269344c000e5e39f1da0261ef54b811055be0257b1acd53/MutualMatters_small04.jpg" data-mid="164284815" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66e449b4578b02ea3269344c000e5e39f1da0261ef54b811055be0257b1acd53/MutualMatters_small04.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b8982768bfa33533e26e90e2a0a9c29fe3ce611b9b43f7bc555a475e26d8531/DSC01383-1_small.jpg" data-mid="164284829" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b8982768bfa33533e26e90e2a0a9c29fe3ce611b9b43f7bc555a475e26d8531/DSC01383-1_small.jpg" /> <img width="1896" height="1264" width_o="1896" height_o="1264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a222e1679e336e8eeb985079bad69c6d05a37875746e1a912e95cc42ddb49c13/DSC01353_small.jpg" data-mid="164284831" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a222e1679e336e8eeb985079bad69c6d05a37875746e1a912e95cc42ddb49c13/DSC01353_small.jpg" />