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The emerging South Korean artist Taeyoon Kim (b.1982) has a specialist background in film and video. He studied live-action at the California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles from 2000-2002, and in 2007 earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Video from the School of Art Institute of Chicago.
MAAP (Media Art Asia Pacific) is dedicated to showcasing dynamic media art from Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Accordingly Kim’s recent solo exhibition at MAAP focused solely on three of the artist’s recent video works. The exhibition, his first in Australia, gives prominence to the visual properties that characterise video as an artistic medium. He is disinterested in the conventional production structures of visual media, which emphasise the significance of the narrative element of video.Kim’s artworks are distinctive for their lack of narrative and sound. Concerned rather with ‘the flow of time, and uncertainty’ as integral components of video, his artworks hinge on the link between moving images. This produces ‘non-linear video constructions’ that, Kim explains, ‘Create a new sense of rhythm and draw attention to the physicality of the viewer.’1
Mounted on the wall at the entrance to the exhibition space is 1204 (2014), a two-channel video work. Each channel plays on a random loop from one of two standard (medium sized and rectangular) television screens hung vertically side-by-side and just below eye level. The uncut footage captures the various entry corridors of an apartment complex, shot from the perspective of standing in an elevator moving between different floors. From this perspective the break between floors becomes visible. These intermittent black outs contrast against the view of the corridor, drawing attention to the flatness of