AVP Lab hosts Jeuno Kim’s performance-exhibition from July 15th-22nd 2023. In this period Kim has been in a self-made residency at AVP-Lab and will share with the audience the latest chapters from her long-term project which has had previous manifestations in collaboration with curator Seewon Hyun. In 2019 Kim and Hyun minted their ongoing dialogue framework, “1+1=trekant”, and in that pretext initiated a collaboration with Changgo Theatre with an interest in transforming the theater space into an exhibitionery space where “Movements That Matter” first premiered chapters 1-5 and artist Haneul Choi’s sculptures were installed both on stage, as well as in the dressing room and in the lobby. Other participants in that context included graphic designer Kyusun Shim, and producer Jinyoung Shin. In November 2020 during the Covid pandemic, Kim and Hyun experiment with making an online performance-exhibition based on selective peeling of the archived strands of their dialogue stored in their shared googledrive. While Kim was performing online from Copenhagen, artist Jaehe Gu joins the team of Kyusun Shim, and Seewon Hyun, that opened the exhibition in Seoul. It was the height of restrictions and therefore only a handful could visit the exhibition space, in an otherwise empty streets.
 
On 5th July 2023, Kim arrives at AVP Lab, dragging a big black suitcase up the small hill and her perambulations continue between AVP, AVP Lab, and her family home that become transitional passages. There are conversations. Listening and Movement. “사물화의 운동거지” is a mistranslation of a Korean term 행동거지, that comes from Kim’s process of digging around for an adequate translation of “Movements That Matter”. And in this act of translating the work into her mother tongue, a new “version” or “variation” of the piece manifests. Jeuno Kim unfolds a tale of the personal intertwined with the architectonic, interconnection of artistic collaborators and influences, and how a space is inhabited by its residents. While a diary of tomorrow yet to be is written, and the entry of a yesterday seem unlived, Kim’s “residence drawings” appear amid the changing variations of artists, teachers, students, children, and the elderly, characters that compose her everyday. (Seewon Hyun, Translation by Jeuno Kim)
 
 
Text About the Performance-Exhibition:
“Movements That Matter” is a performance work using textile, drawing, props, choreography, and text in a score to explore how the spaces we inhabit and work in are connected intuitively to stories we have lived in and remember. The performance is a gathering of architectonic memories that structure the narrative on how the nebulousness of memory has a formative role in constructions of queer identity and how shame can determine decisions we make as artists.
 
For the context at AVP, Kim will score the final chapter of the project that deals with, “Art Education”. She writes about artist-teachers such as Nanette Yannuzzi-Macias, Yvonne Rainer, Kerry James Marshall, and Marion von Osten that have been important in her own formation as an artist, while reflecting on her present realities as an arts educator.
Kim will live, work, exhibit, invigilate, and perform inside the total installation that she arranges at AVP-LAB for the period of performance-exhibition.
 
Performance-Exhibition is a format Kim has been experimenting with to think more carefully about places and times where work is made to the location and occasion of where work is exhibited. Kim finds the conceptualization and production process of an artwork to be the most generous and generative moments in an artist’s labor, and “Movements That Matter” is a public manifestation of the four works-in-process that will be shared with the public.
 
In preparation for her solo exhibition in 2024 at Astrid Noack’s Atelier, an exhibition space that is located in the former studio of a Danish artist and sculptor Astrid Noach (1888-1954), Kim occupies and transforms the AVP-LAB space to become both a stage, an exhibition space, as well as her makeshift artist studio, and a place of refuge from her family. Text/manuscript, costume, prop-objects, choreography are elements of composition in “Movements That Matter”, and the performance-exhibition functions as a kind of a live-scoring of the work, that will continue to be made as Kim guards the space. (Jeuno Kim)
 
 
Jeuno Kim
Jeuno Kim is an artist and educator based in Copenhagen and Malmö. Currently, she is the study leader of the BFA school and protector of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Previously, she has been a Professor at the Funen Art Academy, Odense, and study leader of the BFA program in Fine Arts at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University. 
Kim is part of an artist duo with Swedish artist Ewa Einhorn, and since 2009 they have made numerous videos, performances, drawings, and installations. They are the founders of Krabstadt, a feminist transmedia project, which has been shaped through many collaborations and contexts producing animated films, computer games, performances, and an academic journal. The films have been shown in Berlinale Short Film Competition, Cannes Short Film Corner, Sarajevo Film Festival among others; and they have exhibited in venues such as Busan Biennale, Jakarta Biennial, and Malmö Museum, among others. They have also been awarded a 3 year artistic research grant from the Swedish Vetenskapsrådet, as well as the research grant from the Danish Arts Council for their investigation on animated images as knowledge and gamification of education. Kim has a background in feminist liberation theology, classical music, and has previously worked as a radio DJ. Her sound, performance, textual, and video works explore the nebulousness of memory and its formative role in questions of identity that is mediated through geography, translation, and narratives. Her research is oriented toward problematics of representation, animated images as knowledge, feminist pedagogies, and issues of living in translation required of many diasporic identities. Since 2018, together with curator and writer Seewon Hyun, Kim has been part of a research framework 1+1=trekant where they have been dialoguing on feminist learning methods, and the curatorial as a performative practice. Hyun and Kim have explored working with different places and manifested in contexts such as an art academy in Oslo, a theatre space in Seoul, and in an online-onsite digital space during Covid-19. With a nod to humor and the poetic, their conversations have traversed across the political, sociological, and pedagogical methods that permeate our realities and understandings of identity, history, and nations.