“Spin - off” Installation view at ELEPHANTSPACE © ELEPHANTSPACEELEPHANTSPACE is pleased to present Spin-off, an exhibition by Song Min Jung, Oh Joo Young, and CO/EX (Kim Ju Won, An Cho Rong) from August 18 to September 8.
“Spin-off” is a media term that refers to a new work based on a character or setting in a movie or drama. The exhibition interrogates the principle of spin-off, in which multiple stories are derived and scattered from a single source, in relation to contemporary narrative spaces, such as narratives generated by artificial intelligence and constantly updated timelines on social media.
In Song Min Jung’s < Scene > (2022), viewers can see stories and videos on a cell phone. In this work, the viewer’s point becomes the starting point of the narrative, and the narrative never converges into a single ending but repeats infinitely. < Astral Embrace: Echoes of Cryptic Affections > (2023) by Oh Joo Young is a visual novel game created by artists in collaboration with intelligence systems GPT -4 and Dall-E. The main character and the development of the story in the game change according to the choices made in the video, which is said to be inspired by the creation process of an AI. In CO/EX’s < Charlie, Echo, Triestero > (2020), unlike the previous two works which actively used the media environment, we can see postcards exchanged over 60-day period between two artists, who play Charlie and Echo, respectively. The improvised narratives based on the content of the previous postcard are combined with the mobility of the postcard medium to convey a sense of fluidity rather than fixity.
