Mia Dahye Kim
A sequence of stills from “The Violent Thing”
Could you elaborate a bit the function of the Moon in "Shrine"?
sequences coexist on the screen. The three videos are shown on the screen simultaneously and they constantly interact with one another. The project is inspired by Edvard Munch’s paintings. Therefore, it is an interpretation of paintings into moving images, and it became a story of a couple focusing on the powerful emotions in Munch’s paintings.
The moon represents the feminine power of the nature. In Korea, shamans are usually women and it’s a female-dominated world. Shamanism is about the nature and its power or spirit.We believe the nature consists of two contrary powers of dark and bright, male and female, cold and hot, etc… The moon is in the pair with the sun and related to our emotions and unconciousness. Therefore, the moon is shaman and shamanism itself.
Now we would like to spend some words about another interesting artwork of yours, "A Room of One's Own", whose still can be admired by our readers in these pages. Can you tell us about your process and set up for making this work?
A feature of "Violent Things" that has impressed me is the sense of movement of still shot. Moreover I can recognize a channel of communication between the three videos...
It started with a simple idea, which was to make an intimate self-documentary video crossing the boundary between fiction and non-fiction. And I also wanted to try other mediums. It turned out to be a site-specific
The story is divided into three videos by three different time sequences and the three time 86