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Date: February 7
Time: 20:00 - 22:00
Location: POST – NIJMEGEN
Address: van Oldenbarneveltstraat 63A, Nijmegen
Language: English
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How can we feel at home in unfamiliar spaces? How do we reshape ourselves and our values as wanderers or temporary inhabitants of these places? And how does moving across borders transform our ideas surrounding spiritual transcendence on the one hand, and earthly roots on the other? 

Bidulki (비둘기) is the Korean word for pigeon, and while the pigeon often represents freedom and the divine in Western traditions, it symbolizes a deep connection between the spiritual and the earthly in Korean culture. The pigeon is thus both a creature of high-spirited ideals, yet deeply grounded in everyday life. 

ArtEZ students Keonwoo (Noah) Kim, Yubin Lee and Evgeniia van Zonneveld examine this dual nature in Bidulki: Grounding the Spirit, a 20-minute performance through movement, music, storytelling and yoga. Bidulki: Grounding the Spirit explores the tension between flight and grounding, thereby reflecting on the idea of belonging in an unfamiliar place and the (re)shaping of identity in an ever-changing world.

After the performance, curator Martine van Lubeek will engage in a conversation with the three artists to explore the role of the pigeon, the artists’ experiences with encountering unfamiliar spaces, and to figure out how one can belong somewhere in-between. 

Keonwoo Kim (KR, 1998)

Keonwoo Kim is an artist working with performance, sound, and installation, inspired by South Korea's traditional mask dance, Tal'chum. He recontextualizes elements of ancient faith, such as shamanism and totemism, in a contemporary context. Keonwoo develops rituals to explore the concept of harmonization. Exploring through ritual how audience, artist and artwork might interact, the rituals create a deeply affective atmosphere and open up space for transcendental excange.

Yubin Lee (KR, 2001)

Yubin Lee is a South Korean artist. Her work delves deep into the layers of one’s inner smoke, visualizing the journey of discovering a true self, one’s core essence and the key to inner freedom. Incorporating elements of Buddhism and meditation, she paints landscapes of inner journeys by way of working in an ‘unconscious’ state. Through sculpture and painting, she creates installations that weave together small details with large surfaces, invoking a sense of nostalgia.

Evgeniia van Zonneveld (RU, 1991)

Evgeniia van Zonneveld is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ulyanovsk, USSR, and currently residing in the Netherlands. Using science fiction as a tool for reinventing and retelling narratives of humanity, she operates at the intersection of sculpture and performance. She explores possible forms of non-conventional human life at the intersection of sculpture and performance. As such, she questions the current biopolitics of technology and imagines new, post-human political imaginations and ethics.