CHAPTER 1: A Question of Quantum Entanglement
Curated by Joowon Park and Valentine Umansky
September 2 – 6, 2024
Alison Nguyen, my favorite software is being here, 2021, 20 min
For the third year in a row, Frieze Film returns to Frieze Seoul 2024. This year’s programme is in partnership with Ewha Media Art Presentation (EMAP), on view from 2-6 September at Ewha Womans University and online at frieze.com.
Curated by Joowon Park and Valentine Umansky, this year’s programme is titled ‘All that Weaves the Universe: Of Quantum Entanglements’. It brings together time-based media works of 37 international artists, unfolding under 8 chapters.
CHAPTER 2 - Longing & Belonging
These four films deal with the possible subversions of digital space, raising questions around identity and surveillance, in direct or symbolic ways. While Dineo Seshee Bopape’s is i am sky offers the possibility of cosmic infinity as a frontier for Black liberation, Alison Nguyen’s and Vitória Cribb’s works raise concerns about contemporary forms of oppression, through the generalization of digital mechanisms of control.
Together, the four works reflect ways of finding – unmonitored – spaces to connect in today’s age. They aptly emphasize how the interplay between capitalism and technology has driven economic inequality and exploitative dependency and offer possibilities of liberation through the blurring of identity markers and the construction of alternate universes.