YIDAN KIM

WORKS

Fluid (2024)
The Gate (2024)
OOO(Olfaction-Oriented Object) - Trolley (2024)
OOO(Olfaction-Oriented Object) - Baby Cot Part (2024)
OO (Olfactory Observation) (2024)
The Great Escape (2024)
Smell Cell, Swollen (2024)
Condillac’s Statue (2023)
Human Nosework Training (2020)
Reconstruction of a moment 1, 2 (2020)

Restructured Objectscape (2024)
Ceremony For the Last Humanity (2023)Ecology of Death and Annihilation: A Ceremony for Things that Wither (2021)

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Ecology of Death and Annihilation: A Ceremony for Things that Wither

Yidan Kim, Haedong Lee
2021
Performance
52min 55sec

Since ancient times, humanity has engaged in acts of worship and sought redemption through playing instruments, chanting, letting out a cry, or burning plants to make smoke, among other things. The materials that comprised such rituals included scent, light, movement, and sound, which developed into what we today understand as art.

Ecology of Death and Annihilation delves into the ritualistic origins of art by staging a contemporary form of ritual. In this time-space, one is immersed in a sublime ecology of death, annihilation and things that wither, where sounds reverberate and eventually dissipate into silence, as if simulating incense smoke that withers away. Sound and scent are utilized in this performance not only to reflect on the possibility of contemporary ritual—which is motivated by private experience to a certain extent—but also to explore the relationship between auditory and olfactory stimulation and formation of consciousness.

Short Video (1min)

Full Video (52min 55sec)

Photo : Gunu Kim

Still Images
Video : Hez Kim