Jee-Ae Lim:
Your East, My Ghost
Your East, My Ghost
In this solo, Jee-Ae Lim creates an imagined space where a body turns into blurred figures, a body that is a millimeter off of everything, a monster, a demonic unicorn, a body looking at you as an active agent and a body that is being looked at as the other. Within this unstable space the body fails to fit its image, which is constructed of the known or what is considered to be known. The body resets the borders of reality, personal stories, memories, fantasies, myths, and lies. The performance gradually removes the possibility of reproducing accustomed images, which rule the individual body. Subjunctive histories are built placing the body beyond the unitary historical context.
Jee-Ae Lim combines in her work aspects of traditional Korean dance with a contemporary sensibilitiy. She holds an MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship at HZT Berlin, was chosen as the “Hoffnungsträgerin” in the yearbook 2014 of Tanz magazine and “Young Leading Artist of 2015” from the magazine Gaeksuk. Her major works include New Monster, Golden Age, the trilogy - 10 Years in 1 Minute. She explores the body as a moving archive as well as her own response to the cultural tradition and established dance history in relation to its accustomed conventions and stereotypes.
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE Jee-Ae Lim MUSIC Kyan Bayani LIGHT Benjamin Schälike DRAMATURGY Matthias Quabbe COSTUME Seonyeol Im MOUNTAIN, PROPS Goya Choi, Jee-Ae Lim Performance Assistants Inkyung Lee, Agne Auzelyte
Produced by Jee-Ae Lim in cooperation with SIDance Festival Seoul and SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by Arts Council Korea. Friendly supported by Contemporary Arts Alliance Berlin (CAA), Goethe Institut Seoul. media partner: taz.die tageszeitung
Jee-Ae Lim completed her MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship (SODA) at HZT/UdK in Berlin. She is particularly interested in exploring the various possible meanings of traditional Korean dance through choreographic experiments. Tradition to her eyes is less about worshipping the phantoms and glories of the past but closer to a space of creation where questions as material of experiment arises. Her major works are New Monster, the trilogy 10 Years in 1 Minute and Your East, My Ghost. Jee-Ae Lim was named as the 'Hoffnungsträgerin' by tanz magazine, and as ‘Young Leading Artist’ by magazine Auditorium.