K-COSMOSIS 

2023-24 

Media:  Immersive mixed media installation of hanging textiles, hybrid altar, and experimental animation (no ai).

K-COSMOSIS explores the ongoing transformation of belief systems across Korean history, imagining knowledge formation as emergent through processes of entanglement. Tracing the history of ritual traditions within Korean contexts, the piece moves from ancient animism and shamanism to Buddhism, Confucianism, and finally Christianity, contemplating how belief systems have adapted to modernization, urbanization, and the rise of industrial capitalism. 

The animation explores how one context passes through another to hybridize and transform into something new. Informed by the Feminist and Queer philosophies of quantum physics, the piece uses particle simulation to express this ongoing process of mixing, where belief systems are never static but always in intercontextual motion and hybridization. Viewers experience the synthesis of a divided yet intra-related universe, where perceived boundaries are blurred, and things and thoughts are not independently formed but emerged out of entanglement with a plurality of others.