EMAP x Frieze Film Seoul 2024

Presented in partnership with EMAP at Ewha Womans University and featuring 37 international artists including Ana Mendieta, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Josèfa Ntjam, Ayoung Kim and Thảo Nguyên Phan

in Frieze Seoul , News | 23 AUG 24

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For the third year in a row, Frieze Film returns to Frieze Seoul 2024. This year’s programme is in partnership with Ewha Media Art Presentation (EMAP), on view from 2-6 September at Ewha Womans University and online at frieze.com.

Curated by Joowon Park and Valentine Umansky, this year’s programme is titled ‘All that Weaves the Universe: Of Quantum Entanglements’. It brings together time-based media works of 37 international artists, unfolding under 8 chapters.

Visitor Information

Dates & Times: Monday 2 – Friday 6 September, 6-10pm daily

Location: ECC (Ewha Campus Complex), Ewha Womans University, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul

Direction: Via main entrance of Ewha Womans University (exit 3 from Ewha subway station)

Parking: Underground parking by ECC

Josèfa Ntjam, Quantum Mecanic, 2020, single-channel video, stereo sound, HD, colour, 7 min 7 sec. Commissioned by les Ateliers Médicis (online). Courtesy of the artist and NıCOLETTı, London

Curator Statement

With the exponential rise of digital technologies, our intrinsic ties to the natural world have become increasingly mediated, distant and fragile. The space and boundaries between the human and nonhuman are being fundamentally reconfigured. In a time of absolute climate emergency, nurturing the things and beings with whom we share our ecosystems feels more pressing than ever.

All that Weaves the Universe engages with this topic through a selection of time-based media works. While these looped videos offer varying perspectives, they persistently challenge colonial structures and processes, emphasizing how the interplay between capitalism and colonialism has driven economic inequality, cultural loss, environmental harm, and exploitative dependency, profoundly affecting our societies.

Thao Nguyen Phan, Becoming Alluvium, 2019, One Channel Video, 4k, sound, color, loop Dimensions variable, duration 16.50 — Thao Nguyen Phan, *Becoming Alluvium*, 2019, One Channel Video, 4k, sound, color, loop Dimensions variable, duration 16.50

In the exhibition, weaving acts as a metaphor for understanding the interconnectedness of all things and beings through space and time. An inter-species activity, weaving reminds us of the broader community we are a part of, and with which we share the capacity and thrive to make bonds. It invites mycelium and digital networks under a shared embrace.

While considering the porosity between human and nonhuman, the exhibition connects ancient and modern knowledge systems. For centuries, and despite the forced erasure of their cultures and values, indigenous elders have preserved practices that affirm the balance of all things as interconnected, all events interrelated, and all phenomena interdependent. Their apprehension aligns with current principles of quantum physics; the study of matter and its interactions with energy on the scale of atomic and subatomic particles. Quantum theory suggests that the universe is fundamentally interlinked and indivisible, made of matter at once continuous and discontinuous. 

While reflecting on and at times embracing technology, the invited artists and their works offer bodily, technological, and spiritual insights, bridging the supposed gap that exists between modern and ancient technologies, or wisdom. In doing so, they help us navigate present and future challenges, fostering innovative coexistence with our planet's multifaceted intelligence. 

Kimsooja Thread Routes - Chapter IV, 2014 Image still from 16mm film transferred to HD format, 27:48 loop, Sound Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio — Kimsooja, *Thread Routes - Chapter IV*, 2014. Image still from 16mm film transferred to HD format, 27:48 loop, Sound Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

Chapters & Featured Artists

CHAPTER 1 - A Question of Quantum Entanglements

Josèfa Ntjam

Simon Speiser

Tabita Rezaire

CHAPTER 2 - Longing & Belonging 

Vitória Cribb

Alison Nguyen

Stephanie Comilang

Dineo Seshee Bopape

CHAPTER 3 - On Time, Data, and Speed. Visions of Postmodernity and Accelerationism

Yuyan Wang

Ayoung Kim

Clemens von Wedemeyer

CHAPTER 4 - Making Kin with the Living

Shaun Gladwell

Léuli Eshrāghi

Zheng Bo

I-Lann Yee

Gabriel Abrantes

CHAPTER 5 - Of Soil, Stones, Steel and Souls 

Ana Mendieta

Sojung Jun and Jungju An

Saodat Ismailova

Laura Grisi

CHAPTER 6 - A Line Seeking to Meet Itself 

Zhang Xu Zhan

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Thảo Nguyên Phan

Yin-Ju Chen

Charwei Tsai

CHAPTER 7 - Deep Time

Kimsooja

Wang Tuo

Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel

Martha Atienza

CHAPTER 8 - Ewha Highlights: Unveiling Human Experience in a Digital Age

Heejung Choi

Bokyung Jun

Jiji Kim

Woojin Kim

Woojae Lim

Sungyeon Park

EMAP X Frieze Film Seoul: Screenings Map

Location: ECC (Ewha Campus Complex), Ewha Womans University, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul

EMAP X Frieze Film Seoul Map

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Main image: Installation view of Delivery Dancer's Sphere (2022) from the exhibition What an Artificial World (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cheongju, Korea, 2024) ⓒ National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Photography Hong Choelki.