OFFERING - COIL EMBRACE, 2023
4-channel video installation: 12 min. synchronized and looped. 5.1 sound.
Exhibition view: Fotografisk Center
For Offering – Coil Embrace Jin Kaisen collaborated with a group of free divers in Jeju who have been involved in the environmental preservation of the ocean and the island. With them, she crafted an underwater choreography that draws upon Jeju shamanic myths connected to the ocean and the symbolic meanings of sochang. Sochang is a long white piece of cotton cloth associated with weaving, caring for kin. A symbol of the human cycle of life and death, sochang is integral to rites of passage in Korea. Filmed in slow motion and gradually tinged with red, the film approaches the ocean as a medium and as a vessel of knowledge and matrilineal connection, but also as a space of exile and death.
Performers: Yoha, Susan Chu, Mooming, Neulbomal / Produced by: Incisions / Concept, Editing: Jane Jin Kaisen / Assistant Director, Coordinator: Grace Sungeun Kim / Cinematography: Jane Jin Kaisen, Guston Sondin-Kung / Composer & Sound Mix: Udo Lee / Colorist: Guston Sondin-Kung / Costume Design: Nanda / Dive Masters: Den, Zoe / Research Assistance: Soyoung Kwon With Special Thanks: Hyekyoung Ahn, Stina Hasse Jørgensen, Kim Seongnae, Pujita Guha, the Forest Curriculum, Yo-E Ryou, Koh Young Bong / With support from: The Danish Artistic Research Funding Programme, Ministry of Culture / The Danish Arts Foundation