Grace Euna Kim is a transdisciplinary artist, choreographer, critical researcher, and pedagogue. Her performance-based practice investigates ideology, affect, and the politics of perception and embodiment, particularly in contexts of oppression, resistance, and community. She conceives site-specific immersive performances and interventions across diverse contexts and scales, including public space, galleries/museums, and performing arts stages, as well as in experimental education- and research-oriented formats. Since 2019 she has developed her long-term “Acid Bodies” research, a synthesis of choreographic and phenomenological investigation on symbolic violence, which informs the various outputs of her work. With a background in visual aesthetics, energy bodywork, psychoanalytic and critical theory, Euna develops 360-degree somatic, affective, sensory, and perceptual immersive approaches described as “acid choreography”, which challenge the encounter to bring tangibility to psycho-political drives and dimensions of being and movement.
Note on the Documentation:
To protect the viewer’s immersive lived experience as much as possible, the performances are documented mostly remotely and/or with hidden cameras, handheld in ambient lighting, and without flash. Therefore the documents are limited in terms of what is depicted of the inner world of the performance and the choreographic details, especially the perceptual and subjective experience of the encounter, which is central to how it is devised. Written testimonials are gathered from audience/participants whenever possible, and are essential documents of the work.
Due to the sensitive nature of the work's exploration of audience encounter, public documents are kept very limited.
If you are interested in viewing the private archives, please feel welcome to email Euna at the address below.
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