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.

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 species 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 captured 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.