Lu Yim, 금마타리(Infinite Love), 2025. Photo credit: Rachel Pappo
ID: In a dark theater, a person lays on the ground with their hands draped over their stomach wearing puffy sleeves that flow into the fabric of their pants. In the background is the shape of another person, out of focus but within frame. Both are lit with a warm amber hue.
Sunday, April 27: Open studio performance, from 2–4pm
Wednesday, May 14: Performance, from 2–4pm
Saturday, May 17: Performance, from 2–4pm
Sunday, May 25: Closing performance, from 2–4pm
A.I.R. Gallery (155 Plymouth Street)
In conjunction with their solo exhibition, 금마타리(Infinite Love), 2024–2025 A.I.R. Fellow Lu Yim will host a series of performances featuring themselves, Kate Williams, Nam Pham, Stine An and Cynthia Chang.
Through an installation of sound and light, 금마타리 (Infinite Love) echoes the historical and political landscape at the 38th Parallel of the Korean Peninsula. Because landmines have rendered the area uninhabitable by humans, previously endangered plant and animal life have flourished within the Demilitarized Zone. Yim’s installation imagines a virtual kinship with these entities, who cannot be seen directly and can only be surveilled by unmanned cameras. A disembodied voice, the back-masked cry of a red-crowned crane, and the disuse of assimilative knowledge transform the gallery into a theater built on absence.
The performances will draw from found and fictional archives at the 38th Parallel to foreground Western imperialism’s long history of weaponizing sound and voice. Utilizing somatic inquiry and embodied disability practices, the performers explore the “hard to grasp” nature of sensation and consider how bodily dissociation might serve as an analogue for the experience of virtuality.