1. Quinobequin (2022-)

Two-channel video on loop; Installation.

Quinobequin captures two corporate landmarks—the Citgo and Shell signs—from opposite sides of the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge. Named “Quinobequin” (“meandering river”) by the Massachusett people, this waterway was once vital to indigenous communities and ecosystems. Through centuries of colonial development, the river underwent dramatic transformation, from industrial pollution to modern engineering projects. Today, between these illuminated corporate symbols, Quinobequin questions how we might reclaim this contested space.

2. System III (2018)

An environment for walking.

In questioning spatial systems, this work was the third in a series exploring alternative spatial arrangements—an attempt to create an abstract space filled with footnotes to a larger argument. The loft gallery becomes a passage where visitors can walk and discover objects, structures, and living organisms, inviting them to contemplate and form connections.

3. _______ ____. (2014)

A quiet environment for observation and feeling warm.

As a vessel for exploring how records translate into experience, a pitch-black room was prepared to project video containing the darkest visual information. Visitors wait in a cold space with hot chamomile tea. When it’s their turn, each person receives noise-canceling headphones before stepping down into the dark room. This space is warm and humid. After spending time there, some visitors begin to notice the video’s rich organic information, and the space itself.

4. Desirable Posture (2009-2010)

Performance; prosthesis design.

Suffering from chronic joint pain that no medical specialist could ease, I created an exoskeletal structure to protect and correct my posture according to doctors’ recommendations. The performance involved walking from one end of a corridor to the other—a task that proved incredibly challenging. Though the structure embodied medical principles, it felt alien to my body. The journey became a long, slow procession. When I finally reached the end, exhausted, pained, and confused, I was met with someone’s warm handshake and meaningful gaze—a simple gesture of welcome.

5. Face Off (2024)

Single channel video (8+ mins)

Each Olympics season reminds me of the Korea I grew up in and its relationship with the United States. Before the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, children learned to make pause and monitor one another every evening.

6. Record (2013-)

Data processing; editorial design; video installation; growing catalogue books.

This comparative project examines a specific dataset from eBay.com captured on September 28, 2012—a random day when I discovered Korean War items being sold through the platform. The jarring juxtaposition of these artifacts with the e-commerce platform led me to question the vitality of both the objects (and their symbolic meaning) and the online marketplace itself. The system presents these items—laden with unresolved tragedy and brutality—through prices, seller descriptions, and regional availability. To explore how we might better understand the vitality of these items and their relationship to commerce, I developed several alternative systems to present the same data, revealing different affective dimensions through comparison.

7. Dr. Paz Methodology (2017-)

Performance; video; object.

To demonstrate how disciplinary methods are inherently partial, the performer moves through three research stages in exploring a space: measurement and inscription, humanization, and mobilization.

8. Seminar (2013)

Performance; video; object.

A seminar room is transformed into a dark, cold passage lined with printed archival documents—their image data cut out. The passage is scattered with video objects and performers who create visual and rhythmic guidance for the invited audience members, each equipped with a flashlight. At the end, the audience finds themselves around a table lamp emitting warmth and a pile of record images—the very ones cut out from the documents.

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