Sway
2025.08.28 –
2025.08.28
Jane Jin Kaisen, Sway, 2025. performance, 10-15 min. Concept: Jane Jin Kaisen. Producer: Soyoung Kwon. Choreographer: Bora Kim. Performers: Youjean Goh, Jieun Kim, Chaehee Kim, Kyungho Na, Sangmi Park, Hyeontaek Oh, Juryung Jung. Performance Coordinators: Sangmi Park, Mijin Lee. Costume: Joon Lee. Music & Sound mix: Lior Suliman. Research Assistant: Pauline Koffi Vandet. Performance commissioned by The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale and supported by Danish Arts Foundation. Courtesy of the artist. The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Séance: Technology of Spirit. Seoul Museum of Art, 2025. Photo: Hong Cheolki
Jane Jin Kaisen’s work considers wider political histories, often through the experience of displaced individuals and communities.
Dokkaebi are shapeshifting nature spirits sometimes invoked in shamanic rituals on Jeju Island. Seven Dokkaebi feature in the performance Sway. What have they come to tell us? Have they come to our aid or to play tricks on us? Or perhaps they are here to remind us to attend to other ways of sensing, knowing, and relating to each other…
＊ The new commissioned performance Sway by Jane Jin Kaisen is inspired by her video work Dokkkaebi in 2024, also exhibited as part of Seoul Mediacity Biennale.
