Lim Minouk  (b. 1968, Seoul)

¡°Lim works along the path of mobility and discontinuity, conceiving forms and modes of practice along the process of displacement. Lim speculates on the reality and dimension of thinking articulated in the course of living without settling somewhere. Her practices are contextually contingent and formally mutating in the process of mobility. Whether Lim¡¯s works are presented as objects, performance, photographs, videos, publications or events, they constitute a single totality with multiple internal cross-references. Since the process is intrinsic to her work, it vividly reflects the segmented space and time of Korea. As a way to envision a path that leads away from discontinuity and displacement, Lim seeks for potential means for restoring connectedness among restless individuals.

S.O.S. Adoptive Dissensus is Lim¡¯s ambitious 90-minute performance that took place on a cruise boat on the Han River in Seoul. Invited guests to the performance become passengers of this boat and are literally immersed in a synesthetic experience during the performance. The event unfolded in three forms: situational events on the riverside, theater inside the boat and light performances in-between. While the boat drifts through the river in downtown Seoul, lights flick on the devastated construction sites and apartment fortresses on the riverside. Three narratives, intersecting and circulating one another, are connected by radio transmission and eventually converge to construct our memories from forgotten, unregistered or disregarded debris. ¡°The performance throws questions about the relationship of memory faded by speed, resistance from it and the relationship between human beings and nature inside the city.¡± (Lim)