Ayoung Kim's Cross-Dimensional 'Delivery Dancer' Drama Takes Over MoMA PS1
Marking her highly anticipated U.S. debut.
Summary
- Ayoung Kim is set to open, Delivery Dancer Codex, her debut U.S. exhibition at New York’s MoMA PS1
- The film trilogy will be shown together for the first time
- In addition to the exhibition, Kim will also premiere a live work, “Body^n,” at Performa festival from November 13 through 15
South Korean artist Ayoung Kim makes her U.S. debut at MoMA PS1 with Delivery Dancer Codex, bringing together the entirety of her celebrated video installation trilogy for the first time. A pioneering voice in the new media space, Kim’s works fuse virtuality reality, game engines, AI and sculpture to create immersive speculative systems that interrogate geopolitics, myth and technology.
The trilogy follows two doppelgänger couriers hurtling through the backstreets of Seoul. What begins as a routine drop-off quickly spirals into a cross-dimensional drama, as the two must reckon with the metaphysical fractures that unfold they finally come face-to-face. Oscillating between live-action footage, AI-generated sequences and anime-style animations, the film looks to the gig economy as an allegory of labor, extractive capitalism, self-optimization and the algorithms that govern contemporary life.
Despite her prominent presence in South Korea, Kim has only recently gained international attention, coming off a dizzying run of Many Worlds Over at Hamburger Bahnhof earlier this year. In addition to the showcase at MoMA PS1, the artist will also debut a live Delivery Dancer work, “Body^n,” at this year’s Performa, New York’s esteemed performance art biennial.
Delivery Dancer Codex will be on view at MoMA PS1 from November 6 through March 16. Tickets for the “Body^n” performance, running from November 13 through 15 at Canyon, are now available through Performa’s website.
