Watch Now: Jang Sumi's LIVE Performance
In this video from Frieze Seoul 2024, the artist invites us to explore social and bodily connection
In this video from Frieze Seoul 2024, the artist invites us to explore social and bodily connection
We meet artist Jang Sumi and her collective of dancers, during their performance for the new LIVE programme at Frieze Seoul 2024.
Taking place during the fair, Jang’s performance explores the encounter between the individual body and the ‘external forces of society’, in this instance, the fair audience.
Jang rejects external labels gender, social class and sexuality. She believes that the body, through continuous interactions with others, is in a constant state of flux. Through performance, she invites audiences to question ‘what is undefinable, individualized, and intuitive... expanding how we think about the body’.
About the artist
Jang Sumi (b. 1973) is an artist based in Seoul and Berlin. Her work Philia, Tuning, scream es-say, Dead-body Being, Queering Voice_sensing and togethering, Oblique sensation; has been presented at Zurich Theatre Spectacle, Theater Freiburg, SPAF, Festival Heidelberg, Berlin Art Week, Sophiensaele Berlin, Uferstudios Berlin, LIG Art Center Seoul and DMZ Art Project.
Further Information
Frieze LIVE 2024 is presented in partnership with DYAD, a private members’ club launching in the heart of Cheongdam in 2025.
Credits: Artist: Jang Sumi; performers: Kim Hyunjin, Kwon Lyoneun, Im Eunjoung, Yoo Jiyoung, Kyung Jieun, Lee Yun, Lee Sawyer, Hoh Sunguk, Jeon Eunseo, Jang Sumi; sound artist: Park Mint; dramaturg: Kim Jungah
