애니메이션: 얄루
애니메이션 보조: 송하민
제작 보조: 우혜진
사운드: 예츠비
모션캡쳐: Carlos Marfill
안무: Anna Franco, David Hitchmough
Set in an undiscovered archaeological site from the near future, the underwater garden connects stories told across generations of a fictional Korean family to aspects of contemporary Korean culture. The installation is divided into a temple-like gateway, a pond and a shrine to seaweed. Seaweed has long held an important position in Korean culture, particularly as a comforting ritual repeated across generations, with families eating seaweed soup every year as a nutritious birthday meal. Yaloo weaves these memories together with a glowing altar in the shape of a sheet mask, and images of guardian fairies dancing to K-Pop, choreographed with members from the University of Liverpool's K-pop Society and a group of young people from Liverpool.
Acting as a ‘tour guide’ to this shrine, Yaloo invites us to excavate fragments of Korean culture which have been traded and sold for global consumption. By merging these fragments with both her own and her family’s experiences and memories, Yaloo reclaims their meaning: forging her own path through the world
Yaloo, Birthday Garden Seaweed Fairy (2022), commissioned by FACT Liverpool with public funding from Arts Council England and Liverpool City Council.
Adapted for Supernova 7th Dimension Night Lights Denver.
Birthday Garden credits:
Artist: Yaloo
Sound: Yetsuby
Animation assistant: Hamin Song
Production assistant: Hyejin Woo
Motion capture: Carlos Marfill
Choreography: Anna Franco, David Hitchmough