Living Lab

a virtual exhibition by Laura Hyunjhee Kim

November 19, 2020 - February 6, 2021

Artist Talk & Opening Reception: November 20, 2020 at 12pm PST

Artist Workshop: December 2, 2020 at 12pm PST

Closing Reception: February 5, 2021 at 12pm PST

Laura Hyunjhee Kim’s ongoing practice-based research project, “Living Lab,” focuses on the body as a philosophical medium and contextually shapeshifting laboratory for art-in-the-making. Situating the span of a (non)human life time as a critical framework for attending to the everyday with a sense of wonderment, the spontaneous and improvisational perspective-altering experiments in a “Living Lab” often require the experiential processes of (un)knowing: a destabilization, contestation and subversion of senses that have been made-sense into, normalized, and instituted as facts or forms of knowledge. Responding to the vitality of (non)human companionship and the radicality within these interactions that hold the potential to constitute change, the resulting outcomes of a “Living Lab” pulse (a)rhythmically to an intuitively chaotic score and oscillate with the hybridity and multiverse languages of physiodigital, (im)material, (non)living, and (in)animate worlds.