Jung-Ah Kim is a documentary filmmaker from South Korea interested in experimenting with the material conditions of both digital and handcrafted media to make images move. Since she came to Canada in 2021, Kim became deeply interested in fibre practices such as weaving and spinning and became involved with the Kingston Handloom Weavers & Spinners and participated in oral history projects with them.
Kim explores the relationship between weaving and the early history of computing in her Ph.D. degree in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies at Queen’s University. Drawing on material conditions and processes of textile and early computer media, Kim aims to develop a system of non-narrative filmmaking practice.
This work is created as part of Gathering, the inaugural installation of our new Collection Gallery, featuring community stories told through our global collection. Grounded in community participation, the installation presents over 40 pieces from the Museum’s permanent collection of over 15,000 objects from around the world. Choices of objects, responses, and retellings were gathered via open online calls for reflection, through partnerships with local organizations, and through artists’ interventions. Gathering explores themes related to migration and diaspora, the search for comfort in the domestic and familial, reclamation of ancestral traditions through contemporary artistic responses, and the relationship between textiles and the environment.
This video is part of a digital project generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Now initiative.
