Kimchi and Chips

Reworld pavilion is built from thousands of physical portals that transform the city into versions of Seoul 100 years from now. These physical renderings are co-imagined by the participating architects of the 4th Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, and an AI image generator that creates refracted mosaics using the physical city surrounding the installation. The pavilion remixes the city, creating new relationships between the built environment, various biomatter, the atmosphere and the ground.

 

The pavilion considers the role of an architecture biennale as a situation of image exchange, where future imaginations are handled and manipulated in the form of rendered images. These images shape the aspirations of the city’s citizens and determine the relationship between the city’s past and future. The Reworld Pavilion is an alternative technique for handling these images, offering up the physical city itself as a malleable material upon which we can form our imagination.

 

Sponsors: Arts Council of Korea, Gyeonggi Contents Agency, Lumitec Precision optics manufacturer

 

 Kimchi and Chips, the Seoul-based art collective founded in 2009 by Mimi Son and Elliot Woods, explores the intersection of art, science and philosophy through their ambitious large-scale installations. Their practice is rooted in the recognition that art, science, and philosophy are not distinct disciplines, but rather alternative ways of mapping the same terrain that should be used in tandem. Their work has won several awards and has been presented at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA Korea), ZKM Center for Art and Media, Somerset House, Ars Electronica, ACC Gwangju, Zeche Zollverein, SxSW and Resonate Festival, and continues to influence contemporary art and technology.

 

Kimchi and Chips/ Mimi Son, Elliot Woods

Team: Boeun Kim, Chris Kang, Sangbong Lee, Nilesh Kumar

Production Partners: C2 Artechnolozy, Lumitec, Industry Bridge

Assembly Team: Eun Sang Jo, Yubeen Moon, Jong Min Shin,In Kyu Hwang, Sean Maylone

Engineering Consultants: Allesblinkt, Whatever Together, The Garden In The Machine

Photography: Texture on Texture

Special Thanks to: Sasha Pohle, Hojun Song, Rob Hernandez