Boram Moon(b.1988) lives and works in UK and South Korea. She has worked in performance, sculptural installation, and video which focuses on the sensory responses evoked by power, pressure, posture, and gesture by interrupting the physical integrity of the materials. She investigates how it could be supported by the triggers caused by memories of the unconscious and presents different ways of emerging retrospection through psychological and philosophical grounds. Her works are instructed by a performance score that is the literal translation condensed from the automated physiological (bodily) memory recording the movements of the body in relation to objects and spaces.
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We often delude ourselves with the belief that we are in control of our lives. However, all of us are born into this world, and certain roles are imposed upon us, be they societal, gender or familial. We then live with these obligations as a member of a community, family, or an individual. Each day, consciously or unconsciously we remind ourselves to comply with social obligations and ultimately question whether we are fitting in. This endless cycle is deeply embodied in each of us.
I investigate this subconscious behaviour and systemised cognition through provocation and manipulation by reinterpreting habitual body movements. My sees the body as a living archive that relies on the belief that not only your mind, but also your body can store memories. For me, this Body Memory recalls a particular situation in the past, and can come to the surface during her performance. When the body experiences that movement again through similar gestures the memories are revived once more. Body Memory therefore becomes a living archive, a form of retrospection with movement and the basis of my performance.
Education
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM|
Sep 2016 - Jul 2018
M.A. Performance Pathway in Contemporary Art Practice
EWHA WOMANS UNIVERSITY, SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA|
Mar 2008 - Aug 2014
Major: B.A. Painting / Minor: History of Art
Award & Exhibition
Solo Exhibition
Jan 2019 | ‘A Forward Roll for Beginners’ Lumen Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Group Shows
2020 |
Feb | Rasasastra: Beginnings, Kopi Kalyan, Jakarta, Indonesia
Jan | Habeas Corpus (We have a body) , the Blavatnik Salon, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Open Studio, Conditions Programme, Croydon, UK
2019 |
Nov | ‘Disorders vol.3’, Ugly Duck, London, UK
Oct | ‘8&8’, Outdoor Screening at Seokchon Lake West, Seoul, South Korea
Jun-Jul | ‘Ways to Experience’: KCCUK 2019 Open call Award, Korean Culture Centre, London, UK
Mar | ‘Brick and Mortar’ in Strange Love Time-based Media Festival, Folkestone, you you you UK
2018 |
Nov | ’Influx, Reflux, Exflux’ - The era of New Babylon, Lethaby Gallery, you you you London, UK
Oct | ‘Flow 3’ - Asian Art Activism, Raven Row, London, UK
Jul | Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Jun | ‘Beyond the Body’ Asylum, London, UK
May | ‘Another Five minutes of Your time’ Testbed 1, London, UK
Apr | ‘Live pt.2’ Royal College of Art, London, UK
‘Live pt.1’ Royal College of Art, London, UK
Mar | ‘Synthetic Hapticality’ Enclave projects, London, UK
Jan | ‘Grain’ The Factory, Folkestone, UK
Feb | Rasasastra: Beginnings, Kopi Kalyan, Jakarta, Indonesia
Jan | Habeas Corpus (We have a body) , the Blavatnik Salon, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Open Studio, Conditions Programme, Croydon, UK
2019 |
Nov | ‘Disorders vol.3’, Ugly Duck, London, UK
Oct | ‘8&8’, Outdoor Screening at Seokchon Lake West, Seoul, South Korea
Jun-Jul | ‘Ways to Experience’: KCCUK 2019 Open call Award, Korean Culture Centre, London, UK
Mar | ‘Brick and Mortar’ in Strange Love Time-based Media Festival, Folkestone, you you you UK
2018 |
Nov | ’Influx, Reflux, Exflux’ - The era of New Babylon, Lethaby Gallery, you you you London, UK
Oct | ‘Flow 3’ - Asian Art Activism, Raven Row, London, UK
Jul | Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Jun | ‘Beyond the Body’ Asylum, London, UK
May | ‘Another Five minutes of Your time’ Testbed 1, London, UK
Apr | ‘Live pt.2’ Royal College of Art, London, UK
‘Live pt.1’ Royal College of Art, London, UK
Mar | ‘Synthetic Hapticality’ Enclave projects, London, UK
Jan | ‘Grain’ The Factory, Folkestone, UK
2017 |
Dec | ‘I come in the end The best is over’, Dyson Gallery, London, UK
Nov | ‘Follow’, Lychee One, London, UK
Sep | ‘Archiving Fever: Here I am, There you are’ in Art Lick Weekend, The Square Gallery, London, UK
May | ‘Revolve’, Performance Vandring; Uppsala Performance arts day, Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
Apr | ‘Nakt_Unplugged’, Frappant, Hamburg, Germany
Mar | ‘Five minutes of Your time’, Testbed 1, London, UK
Feb | ‘Handover’, Strange Cargo, Folkestone, UK
Jan | Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2016 |
Aug | ‘Byul-Byul’, Goods, Sejong Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
2015 |
Aug | ‘Unknown Packages Queens’ Queens Museum, New York, USA
Jun | ‘Bunch up Hour’ Queens Musuem, New York, USA
Mar | ‘Paperback Writer Paperback Artist(s)- MxA: John Squeaks’ Takeout Drawing Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea
2014 |
Aug | ‘E:motion’ Museum of Gyumjae Jungsun, Seoul, South Korea
Jul | ‘Chapter 2’ Museum of Seongbuk, Seoul, South Korea
2013 |
Nov | Degree Show, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Dec | ‘I come in the end The best is over’, Dyson Gallery, London, UK
Nov | ‘Follow’, Lychee One, London, UK
Sep | ‘Archiving Fever: Here I am, There you are’ in Art Lick Weekend, The Square Gallery, London, UK
May | ‘Revolve’, Performance Vandring; Uppsala Performance arts day, Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
Apr | ‘Nakt_Unplugged’, Frappant, Hamburg, Germany
Mar | ‘Five minutes of Your time’, Testbed 1, London, UK
Feb | ‘Handover’, Strange Cargo, Folkestone, UK
Jan | Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2016 |
Aug | ‘Byul-Byul’, Goods, Sejong Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
2015 |
Aug | ‘Unknown Packages Queens’ Queens Museum, New York, USA
Jun | ‘Bunch up Hour’ Queens Musuem, New York, USA
Mar | ‘Paperback Writer Paperback Artist(s)- MxA: John Squeaks’ Takeout Drawing Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea
2014 |
Aug | ‘E:motion’ Museum of Gyumjae Jungsun, Seoul, South Korea
Jul | ‘Chapter 2’ Museum of Seongbuk, Seoul, South Korea
2013 |
Nov | Degree Show, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Residency
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020 | Conditions Programme, Croydon, UK
Jan 2019 | Lumen Artist Residency, Lumen Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Publication
Feb 2020 | Rasasastra Book series vol.1: Beginnings
Experience
Jan 2018 | Performance Show ‘Free Flow Fictioning’ The Showroom, London, UK
2017 |
Dec | Performance Show ‘You My Show’ The Showroom, London, UK
Opening Performance in the Exhibition ‘Dawn Breaks’, The Showroom, London, UK
Nov | Performer in Art work by Eunjung Kim, ‘Hyperanalogue’, The Photographer’s gallery, London, UK
Sep 2016 | Performance in Art work by Martha Araújo, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
Sep 2015 | ‘A Woman whose head came out Before her name’ directed by Sung Hwan Kim, Asia Culture Centre, South Korea
2012 | Performer and Assistant of the Video ‘Temper clay’ by Sung Hwan Kim, exhibited in Tank, Tate, London, UK, 2013
Workshop
Jan 2018 | ‘Dawn Breaks’ by Jewyo Rhii and Jihyun Jung, The Showroom, London, UK
: Leading the Performance workshop realated with the Exhibition
Apr 2017| ‘Nakt_Unplugged’ Frappant, Hamburg, Germany
Jun - Aug 2015 | Unknown Packages Queens, Queens Museum, New York, USA
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