SOLO EXHIBITION: OCCUPANCY OF THE SELF: HYBRID MOMENTS

OCCUPANCY OF THE SELF: HYBRID MOMENTS

A Groundbreaking Exploration of Climate Evolution, AI, and Identity

From September 22-30, 2023, Elly Cho presented her solo exhibition, Occupancy of the Self: Hybrid Moments, at This Is Not A Church in Seoul, Korea. The exhibition brought together painting, video installations, performance art, and film, reflecting Choโ€™s interdisciplinary approach and ongoing exploration of identity, climate evolution, and emerging technologies.

A Performance That Became an Artwork

At the VIP opening on April 22, 2023, Cho premiered a live dance performance, which she directed and choreographed in collaboration with Myeong Suk Na, Director of the Korea Dance Association. This special performance was filmed as part of Choโ€™s art documentary, which investigates the effects of climate change on the environment and the speculative emergence of hybrid species in a future landscape.

The audience played an active role, witnessing the creation of an artwork within an artworkโ€”a participatory experience that blurred the boundaries between performance and visual art.

Artificial Intelligence & Climate Speculation

A significant element of the exhibition was Choโ€™s integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a drawing tool. In collaboration with CJ OliveNetworks and its AI Research team, she explored the intersection of technology, Korean folk history, and environmental change.

Using text-to-image face generation, GAN-based Image Synthesis, and Image Blending, the AI analyzed historical references and visual data to generate hybrid beingsโ€”a speculative vision of future life forms shaped by climate change. These digital renderings informed Choโ€™s paintings and drawings, which depicted a post-human future where humans and nature evolve in unpredictable ways.

Merging Science, Technology & Art

By combining traditional artistic methods with cutting-edge AI technology, Choโ€™s work challenged the boundaries of contemporary art. The exhibition provided a thought-provoking dialogue on humanityโ€™s evolving relationship with nature, questioning how climate change, cultural memory, and technology shape our identities and futures.

About the Artist

Elly Cho is an interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges visual art, performance, and technology. Through painting, film, AI-driven imagery, and live performances, she examines themes of identity, environmental change, and cultural heritage.

EXHIBITION DETAILS

๐Ÿ“… Dates: September 22 โ€“ September 30, 2023
๐ŸŽญ VIP Opening & Live Performance: April 22, 2023
๐Ÿ“ Venue: This Is Not A Church, Seoul, Korea


์ž์•„์˜ ์ ์œ  โ€“ ํ•˜์ด๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ๋“œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค

๊ธฐํ›„ ๋ณ€ํ™”, ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•œ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์  ์—ฌ์ •

2023๋…„ 9์›” 22์ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 30์ผ๊นŒ์ง€, **์„œ์šธ 'This Is Not A Church'**์—์„œ **์—˜๋ฆฌ ์กฐ(Elly Cho)**์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ „ **ใ€Š์ž์•„์˜ ์ ์œ : ํ•˜์ด๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ๋“œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค(Occupancy of the Self: Hybrid Moments)ใ€‹**์ด ๊ฐœ์ตœ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ํšŒํ™”, ๋น„๋””์˜ค ์„ค์น˜, ํผํฌ๋จผ์Šค ์•„ํŠธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ํ™”๋ฅผ ์•„์šฐ๋ฅด๋ฉฐ, ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ํ•™์ œ ๊ฐ„(interdisciplinary) ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํผํฌ๋จผ์Šค์—์„œ ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ

2023๋…„ 4์›” 22์ผ, VIP ์˜คํ”„๋‹์—์„œ ์—˜๋ฆฌ ์กฐ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ฌด์šฉํ˜‘ํšŒ ๋‚˜๋ช…์ˆ™ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ ์—ฐ์ถœ ๋ฐ ์•ˆ๋ฌดํ•œ ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ ๋Œ„์Šค ํผํฌ๋จผ์Šค๋ฅผ ์„ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ณต์—ฐ์€ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ธฐํ›„ ๋ณ€ํ™”์™€ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹คํ๋ฉ˜ํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋กœ ์ดฌ์˜๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ด€๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์˜ ์ฐฝ์ž‘ ๊ณผ์ •์— ์ง์ ‘ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ณธ ํผํฌ๋จผ์Šค๋Š” ์ž‘ํ’ˆ ์† ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ด ๋˜๋Š” ์ฐธ์—ฌํ˜• ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์˜ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ, ์‹œ๊ฐ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ณผ ํผํฌ๋จผ์Šค ์•„ํŠธ์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ—ˆ๋ฌผ๋ฉฐ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ(AI)๊ณผ ๊ธฐํ›„ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ผ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜

์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „์‹œ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ์š”์†Œ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” AI(์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ)๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ž‘ ๋„๊ตฌ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—˜๋ฆฌ ์กฐ๋Š” CJ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ธŒ๋„คํŠธ์›์Šค AI ์—ฐ๊ตฌํŒ€๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ „ํ†ต ๋ฌธํ™”, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณ€ํ™”์˜ ๊ต์ฐจ์ ์„ ํƒ๊ตฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ํ…์ŠคํŠธ-์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ๋ณ€ํ™˜(face generation), GAN ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ(GAN-based Image Synthesis), ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ๋ธ”๋ Œ๋”ฉ(Image Blending) ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ, AI๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์กด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ•™์Šตํ•˜๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ•˜์ด๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ๋“œ ์กด์žฌ๋“ค์„ ์ƒ์„ฑํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ•˜์ด๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ๋“œ ์กด์žฌ๋“ค์€ ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋™๋ฌผ์˜ ํŠน์„ฑ์„ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ, ๊ธฐํ›„ ๋ณ€ํ™” ์ดํ›„์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ƒํƒœ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์˜ ์ฃผ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ณผํ•™, ๊ธฐ์ˆ , ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์˜ ์œตํ•ฉ

์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•๊ณผ ์ฒจ๋‹จ AI ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•œ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „์‹œ๋Š”, ๊ธฐํ›„ ๋ณ€ํ™”, ๋ฌธํ™”์  ๊ธฐ์–ต, ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ด๋Œ์–ด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ž‘๊ฐ€ ์†Œ๊ฐœ

**์—˜๋ฆฌ ์กฐ(Elly Cho)**๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ์˜ˆ์ˆ , ํผํฌ๋จผ์Šค, ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹คํ•™์ œ์  ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํšŒํ™”, ์˜ํ™”, AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€, ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ ํผํฌ๋จผ์Šค๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ, ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณ€ํ™”, ๋ฌธํ™”์  ์œ ์‚ฐ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ฃผ์ œ๋ฅผ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋™์‹œ๋Œ€ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ง€ํ‰์„ ์—ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ „์‹œ ์ •๋ณด

๐Ÿ“… ์ „์‹œ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„: 2023๋…„ 9์›” 22์ผ โ€“ 9์›” 30์ผ
๐ŸŽญ VIP ์˜คํ”„๋‹ ๋ฐ ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ ํผํฌ๋จผ์Šค: 2023๋…„ 4์›” 22์ผ
๐Ÿ“ ์žฅ์†Œ: This Is Not A Church, ์„œ์šธ, ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ


Credit ํฌ๋ ˆ๋”ง

Producer/ Director: Elly Cho ์กฐ์• ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๋… ๋ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๋“€์„œ

Music producer ์Œ์•… ๊ฐ๋… /ํ”„๋กœ๋“€์„œ : ๋Œ€๋‹ˆ ์ • Danny Jung

Choreographer ์•ˆ๋ฌด: ๋‚˜๋ช…์ˆ™ Na Myeong Suk

Dancers ์ฐธ์—ฌ ๋ฌด์šฉ์ˆ˜

ย ๊ธฐ๋ฌด๊ฐ„ Ki Moo Gan, ย ๋ฏผ๊ฒฝ์› Min Kyeong Won, ์žฅ์ˆ˜๋ฒ” Jang Sue Beom, ๊น€์€๊ฒฝ Kim Eun Kyung, ๋‚˜๋ช…์ˆ™ Na Myeong Suk, ๋ฐ•๊ธฐํ™˜ Park Ki Hwan, ์ด๋„์˜ Lee Do Young, ์กฐ์ด์ • Cho I jeong

Lighting Director, Kyungchun Lee ย ์กฐ๋ช…๊ฐ๋…, ์ด๊ฒฝ์ฒœ

๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ: CJ OliveNetworks


Performance documentation


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