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Delivery Dancer's Sphere

KIM Ayoung

Korea202325min Asian Premiere

Synopsis

Ernst Mo is a rider for the powerful courier service Delivery Dancer. Every day, she transports an endless stream of parcels, following algorithmically generated routes through a labyrinthine, technofuturist Seoul. Here, the optimization drives space, time and bodies to the riders’ limits. After she runs into an alternative version of herself, her reality slowly starts to crack.

Program Note

This film, which quotes short stories by Borges, who experimented with “metafiction”, undertakes a “speculative” attempt by naming real-life delivery workers as “delivery dancers”. By bending the lines that race towards the vanishing point from the perspective of Western modernity, this work reconstructs the spacetime of “Sphere”, and embodies the “hyper-reality” of platform workers, who run through the city at breakneck speed to meet delivery deadlines. (SHIN Eun-shil)

Diretor

KIM Ayoung

In her multifaceted practice, Ayoung Kim synthesizes the outcomes of far-reaching speculation, establishing connections between biopolitics and border controls, the memories of stones and virtual memories, and ancestral origins and imminent futures. These narratives take the forms of video, moving image, virtual reality (VR), game simulation, sonic fiction, diagrams, and texts that the artist presents as exhibitions, screenings, performances, theatrical projects, and publications. Kim decisively integrates geopolitics, mythology, technology, and futuristic iconography in her work, and she retroactively seeks speculative time to infiltrate the present.