Dancers Die Twice

Rendered Reality

Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, UK

2020

Photograph by Dan Weill

Collaboration with the Artist Ziad Nagy

The Artist Ziad Nagy and I imagined that the life of people in modern society was a meaningless exercise of repetition. We saw endless situations in which people go to work somewhere to live, constantly trying, and craving for new things continue to occur and disappear in our lives.

We have hired performers to speak for modern people, all four middle-aged women. The reason why we hired middle-aged women is because we wanted to show in our work the various members that exist in "social" that we have not easily illuminated. We decorated them with clothes that were not fashion or purpose: large training suits, travel caps and yellow socks. As mentioned above, we ordered them to walk through the exhibition venue of the Korean Cultural Center UK repeatedly. Then, we assumed the existence of imagination that governs these modern people and hired musicians to recreate the existence. In this part, Ziad and I thought of a bit of a mischievous joke, that it would be nice to decorate this being with a demonic figure or a look like Pan in Greek mythology: God of nature, the wild, shepherds, flocks, of mountain wilds, and is often associated with sexuality.

The idea began in a sarcastic sense of the demonic images of politicians leading the world and humans tainted with greed.

We dressed the musician in a red bathroom gown, slippers and goat horns and ordered the musician to play the piece he wanted to play.

What the audience can see at the exhibition is the performers who follow the melody of the musician who makes a rather strange dissonance, inside the Korean Cultural Center UK and across the venue throughout the opening. We wanted the performance to melt naturally with the audience, and by the presence of people who visited the exhibition space with the performers, it was intended that the work of art, which symbolically depicts modern people, naturally overlaps with the daily routine of real life.