Laura Hyunjhee Kim and Chris Corrente
OVERVIEW __________________________________________________________________
Laura Hyunjhee Kim (Richardson, TX) and Chris Corrente (New York, NY) have been collaborating on video, performance, and music projects for over a decade. Their work incorporates pop-culture tropes, absurdist humor, internet vernacular and mixed-fidelity aesthetics, offering commentary and critique on the affordances of digital technologies and the homogenization of global culture.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS__________________________________________________________
2012 “[ul+ure [l@sh: Chris Corrente & Laura Hyunjhee Kim,” Trifecta Gallery, Las Vegas, NV. [12/6-12/28/2012]
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS_____________________________________________ 2023 “Aberrant Creativity,” Arts Council of Brazos Valley, College Station, TX. [11/28/2023-12/21/2023]
2023 “Continuous Interlude,” The Wrong Biennale, Virtual. [11/1/2023-3/1/2024]
2023 “Escapade Around the World,” Visualcontainer TV, Online/Italy, The Festival 2023–Instants Vidéo
numériques et poétiques, Marseille, France. [10/18/2023-11/21/2023]
2023 BINNAR Festival, Casa-Museu Soledad Malvar, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal [selected, TBD 2023]
2023 “B1,” Association EXPEPHAB (registered office in Marseille, France), Online. [10/1/2023-TBD]
2023 “Re-Fest,” Arium Virtual Gallery, Culture Hub [4/20/2023-4/29/2023]
2023 “Lacuna Festival,” Casa de la Cultura in Yaiza Lanzarote and/or Sala Quirofano in Arrecife, Lanzarote,
Canary Islands,Spain [7/1/2023-7/29/2023]
2023 ”The Archive to Come,” Virtues and Vices, Telematic Gallery, San Francisco, CA. [2/23/2023-4/1/2023]
2023 “New Media,” Theatre of Digital Art (ToDA), Dubai, UAE. [5/13/2022-9/18/2022]
2023 LATITUDES 2023, International Performance Art Festival of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Performance Art
Bolivia (PABA) and Arterial Performance Lab (APLAB) Bolivia [pre-selected]
2022 “Future Bodies,” New Media Caucus Symposium & Exhibition, Virginia Tech, Richmond, VA.
[9/30/2022-10/2/2022]
2022 “Re-Fest” Culture Hub, SeoulArts & La Mama, Virtual [3/14/2022-3/25/2022]
2021 “Common Ground Project,” Kika Nicolela, Online [11/27/2021-ongoing archive]
2021 "Encounters with Incomprehension" pavilion, The Wrong, Peripheral Forms [11/1/2021-2022]
2021 “Beyond the Shelf,” Word Revolt Art Gallery, Atlantic Beach, FL [10/18/2021-10/28/2021]
2020 “The Archive to Come,” Telematic Media Arts, San Francisco, CA. [10/22-12/17/2020]
2018 “BE SOMEBODY!!,” Serial Box Projects, Columbia, MO. [3/1-4/1/2018]
2017 “Internet Archive Residency Exhibition,” Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, CA. [8/5-8/26/2017]
2017 “Digital Aura,” Madison Museum of Contemporary Arts, Madison, WI. [5/5-7/29/2017]
2017 “FAILED EVOLUTION,” Spring / Break Art Show, New York, NY. [2/28-3/6/2017]
2017 “SPAMM POWER Globe Tour,” Super Art Modern Museum (SPAMM), Parsons Paris, Paris, France.
SCREENINGS________________________________________________________________
2023 “Kino Club goes Sompasauna,” Nomads Festival, Kino Club Helsinki in collaboration with
Kulttuuriyhdistämö Interkult, Sompasauna, Helsinki, Finland. [10/6/2023]
2023 Festival Escalatrónica, Festival internacional de arte electrónico de la Universidad Nacional de Lanú,
Aula Magna "Bicentenario" - Edificio José Hernández, Buenos Aires, Argentina. [9/29/2023]
2023 “Imago Video Fest,” Grosso Modo Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel [9/6/2023-9/9/2023]
2023 “New City Park,” Old City Park, Dallas, TX [9/2/2023]
2023 ECOSISTEM—Festivalul Internațional de Arte Performative (International Performing Arts Festival),
curated by Șangri-La Artistic Ground, Bucharest, Romania and Online [8/23/2023-8/27/2023]
2023 Digerati Emergent Media Festival, Denver, CO. [selected, 9/17/2023]
2023 Pi ]π[ Digitꓯl MulTiverse, ]ON[</Screen International Streaming Festival, Vienna, Austria.
[6/2023-12/2023]
2023 “A Very Human Screening”, Insomniac Film Festival, Vector Festival, Toronto. [7/15/2023]
2022 IV FIVA SPMAV 2022 International Videoart Festival, Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel) & Corridor 14
and Leopoldo Gotuzzo Art Museum Pelotas (MALG), RS Brazil. [10/3/2022-10/9/2022]
2022 “Neuromancer’s Prophecy,” 18th Athens Digital Art Festival (ADAF), Online [9/20/2022]
2022 “FutuRetro,” 18th Athens Digital Art Festival (ADAF), Kotzia Square, Athens, Greece.[5/2022]
2022 “Woooooooosh!!,” Dallas Aurora Video Art Nights, Moody Performance Hall, Dallas, TX. [4/30/2022]
2018 “Lungs Project,” Cobalt Studios, Newcastle, UK [10/9/2018]
2016 “OUT(ER) LIMITS, Official Selection, CAAM Festival, San Francisco, CA.
2014 “Liberating Legacies,” Queer Rebels, SFPL, San Francisco, CA.
2014 ‘“Spirit,” Queer Rebels, Artists Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA.
2013 “26th MIX Afro-Asian Visions: Exploding Lineage II,” Queer Rebels, Mix Factory, Brooklyn, NY.
2013 “SPIRIT,” Queer Rebels, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA.
PERFORMANCES____________________________________________________________
2020 “Hi-Feel Lo-Tech Workout: Relaxation and Recovery,” Heavy Breathing, San Francisco, CA. [3/31/2020]
2014 “Proof of Work,” THE SUB, San Francisco, CA.
2013 “Beautiful Noise [03],” Life Changing Ministries, Oakland, CA.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES________________________________________________________
2019 Internet Moon Gallery, Online. [“SEICA Human Interaction Labs: Internet Sentiment Study,”
8/15-9/14/2019]
GRANTS, HONORS & AWARDS________________________________________________
2021 “Soul (Re)cycling with Raccoons in Human-Time,” Artist Film (Short) Award,
Berlin Indie Film Festival [9/2021]
2020 “Cricket World,” Video Art Award, Black Cube, Denver, CO.
2020 “SQUIRRELING Facial Emotion Detection,” Honorable Mention and Micro-Grant, CHA Shelter in Place
Award, Center for Humanities & the Arts, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO. [5/24/2020]
PUBLICATIONS______________________________________________________________
2023 “Traveling 2046,” Transformative Power of Art Journal, Purdue [1/11/2023]
COMMISSIONS & PARTICIPATIONS___________________________________________
2020 “Heavy Breathing 2019-2020 Season Artist,” Heavy Breathing, San Francisco, CA. [2020]
2012 “The One Who Sees Blindly,” Nathalie Talec, Commissioned Performer, YBCA, San Francisco, CA.
WEB, PODCAST & BROADCAST MEDIA _______________________________________
2010 This Is Art? LIVE! (Live Call-In Show What Is Art? LIVE!), What Is Art? LIVE, San Francisco, CA.
2010 LIVE, BAVC (Bay Area Public Access) TV Show, What Is Art? LIVE, San Francisco, CA.
COLLABORATION CATALOG _________________________________________________
Sky’s Edge, Video, 2023 (https://vimeo.com/lhk/skysedge (password: mongrels))
Video, Performance, Vocal, Lyrics by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Video and Sound by Chris Corrente,
Blink, Video, 2023 (https://vimeo.com/lhk/blink)
Video, Performance, Vocal, Lyrics by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Video and Sound by Chris Corrente,
Sound Mastered by Jeff Franklin
Traveling 2046, Video, 2022 (https://vimeo.com/lhk/2046)
Video, Performance, Vocal, Lyrics by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Video and Sound by Chris Corrente
Dat Deer Doe, Video, 2020 (https://vimeo.com/lhk/datdeerdoe)
Video, Vocal, Lyrics by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
Soul (Re)cycling with Raccoons in Human-Time, Video, 2020 (https://vimeo.com/lhk/raccoon)
Video and Performance by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
Cricket World, Video, 2020 (https://vimeo.com/lhk/cricketworld)
Video, Performance, Vocal, Lyrics by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
Nose Nose, Video, 2020 (https://vimeo.com/lhk/nose)
Video, Performance, Vocal, Lyrics by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound and Lyrics by Chris Corrente=
SQUIRRELING Facial Emotion Detection, Video, 2020 (https://vimeo.com/lhk/squirreling)
Video and Performance by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
Party of 1, Video, 2020 (https://vimeo.com/lhk/partyof1)
Video, Performance, Vocal, Lyrics by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
[Finger Flexor]: A Hi-Feel Lo-Tech Workout for the Mind-Body-Conspicuous Contemporary Human, Video, 2020
(https://vimeo.com/lhk/fingerflexor)
Video and Performance by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
Hi-Feel Lo-Tech Workout: Relaxation and Recovery, Video, 2020 (https://vimeo.com/lhk/hfltw)
Video and Performance by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
A Story of Now, Video, 2020 (https://vimeo.com/163882699)
Video and Performance by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
Daydream, Video, 2020 (https://vimeo.com/172503673)
Video by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Performance by Jana Rumberger, Sound by Chris Corrente
Vilém Flusser Toward a Philosophy on Post-Apparatus, Video, 2017 (https://vimeo.com/lhk/post-apparatus)
Video and Performance by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
Hyper Future Wave Machine (HFWM): The Experience, Video, 2017 (https://vimeo.com/227466225)
Video and Performance by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
Hyper Future Wave Machine (HFWM): The Research, Video, 2017 (https://vimeo.com/227464770)
Video and Performance by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
(Modern)Formations I, Video, 2016 (https://vimeo.com/173533925)
Video and Performance by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
(Modern)Formations II, Video, 2016 (https://vimeo.com/173533930)
Video and Performance by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
(Modern)Formations III, Video, 2016 Video and Performance by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
Medium I: THOUGHT I SAW A GHOST… BUT…, Video, 2016 (https://vimeo.com/173539107)
Video and Performance by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
Medium II: Virality, Video, 2016 (https://vimeo.com/173538116)
Video and Performance by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound by Chris Corrente
Molten Tea, Video, 2014 (https://vimeo.com/80728735)
Video, Performance, Vocal, Lyrics by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound and Lyrics by Chris Corrente
Muzzled Man, Video, 2014 (https://vimeo.com/89842798)
Video, Performance, Vocal, Lyrics by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Sound and Lyrics by Chris Corrente
Facial Media Network, Performance, San Francisco, CA, 2014
Video, Performance, Vocal by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Video and Music by Chris Corrente
Art World, Video, 2011 (https://vimeo.com/lhk/aworld)
Video, Performance, Vocal, Lyrics by Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Video, Performance, Vocal, Lyrics and Sound by Chris Corrente