Yin-Ju Chen: ‘Extrastellar Evaluations III : Entropy : 25800’
Yin-Ju Chen, Extrastellar Evaluations III : Entropy : 25800, 2018. 17 minutes, colour, black and white, stereo. Courtesy of the artist
About the Work
By using hypotheses and prophecies founded upon a choreography of fragments of history, as well as mass-media imagery and information, Extrastellar Evaluations III : Entropy : 25800 attempts to pinpoint when exactly doomsday takes place. The film adapts the notion of entropy from the second law of thermodynamics and connects it to the avarice and belligerence of human nature. Narrations of a non-human intelligence named ‘Ra’ are interspersed through the work, explaining that everything is the distortion of the one infinite creator.
About the Artist
Yin-Ju Chen (b.1977, based in Taipei, Taiwan) interprets social power and history through cosmological systems. Utilizing astrology, sacred geometries and alchemical symbols, she considers human behaviour, state violence, totalitarianism, utopian formations and collective thinking. Recently, she has been exploring the material effects of spiritual, shamanic and Buddhist practices and the metaphysical potentialities of consciousness. Recent exhibitions include Shanghai Biennial (2023, 2014); Taipei Biennial (2023, 2020, 2012); Gwangju Biennale (2021); International Film Festival Rotterdam (2018, 2011); Liverpool Biennial (2016); Forum Expanded at Berlinale (2016); Biennial of Sydney (2016).
About EMAP x FRIEZE FILM SEOUL
For the third year in a row, Frieze Film returns to Frieze Seoul 2024. This year’s programme is presented in partnership with Ewha Media Art Presentation (EMAP) and 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 across eight chapters.
