Suhwa Kim, Afterbody, 2024 © Suhwa Kim

The "Afterbody" is the rear fuselage of a fighter jet or aircraft, controlling its direction and balance. The word itself can be interpreted as "afterbody"; "after-body," "temporally finished or future body," "after-existence." The performance stage features a small router that generates a specific Wi-Fi signal and a sensor that detects it and plays pre-recorded sounds.

The random sound compositions that erupt at unpredictable times according to the signal strength represent the real-time changing stage environment. This is because the positions and postures of all bodies in the performance hall, architectural elements like concrete and glass walls, and natural environmental factors like light, temperature, and humidity all contribute to the holistic variation in signal strength.

Suhwa Kim, Afterbody, 2024 © Suhwa Kim

The performer intervenes in, contemplates, and resonates with invisible signals, attempting to become a body of control and conditions. However, the more they try, the more the intentions and outcomes become ambiguous, prompting questions about the very act of striving itself.

The accessibility of information is abundant, and we are more easily connected than ever before. But how is it that we so quickly come to believe in things we cannot sense? And just as quickly, how can we forget them?

Rather than seeking certainty, I yearn to become a body that revels in unpredictability and embraces the ability to lose my way. Can I become a body that gazes into the dense void, drifts in new directions rather than forward, and resonates with scattered vibrations?

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