2024
Video installation, side-by-side two-channel video (26 min. 26), printed text
In collaboration with performer Min Yoon
How To Fall Better explores the physical and emotional dimensions of labor and endurance through repetitive movements. Created in collaboration with Butoh dancer and performer Min Yoon, the piece centers on a cyclical choreography of falling and recovery, stretched over time.
Presented on two screens installed side-by-side, the work interrogates collapse both as an intimate bodily experience and a broader social metaphor. The installation makes the tension between endurance and depletion palpable, asking: At what point does endurance become unsustainable? What new possibilities emerge when exhaustion is made visible rather than concealed?
The process involved two intensive sessions, during which Min Yoon repeatedly fell and rose. The sessions were filmed up close, capturing the vulnerability of the body in this state, along with the relationship between the performer and the camera trying to keep track of the movements. The video installation is accompanied by a printed text reflecting on collapse, scarring, and the body’s capacity to regenerate after a catastrophe.
Presented as part of OPENHAUS at ZK/U (Centre for Art and Urbanistics), Berlin, Germany, 2024.
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
Supported by CBK Rotterdam (Centre for Visual Arts Rotterdam)