Kidows Kim

Kidows Kim (South Korea) is a visual artist and choreographer whose practice unfolds as an interdisciplinary physicality. After initial studies in graphic design and mime, he trained at the CNDC in Angers and completed the Master Exerce at ICI–CCN in Montpellier under Christian Rizzo.

His ongoing project, an intimate cosmogony titled “Dictionary of Fantastical Creatures,” has seen its first three chapters presented as live performances: Funkenstein (2021), Cutting Mushrooms (2023), and High Gear (2025). Parallel to this, he develops a series of ephemeral, punctual video-performances centred on an obsession with manga.

Central to his work is “Monstrarchaeology”: a method of excavating ambiguous, organic forms that drift between the figurative and the abstract, drawing from collective memory and intimate, social, political, and gendered experiences through the distortion of the normative human body, voice, and everyday objects. His work seeks to uncover the underground strangeness hidden within the prosaic, exposing the complex interactions between subject, object, and abject that emerge from deconstructing dominant ideas in the collective unconscious.

Kidows Kim’s artistic practice unfolds as an interdisciplinary physicality expressed across multiple mediums: movement, clothing, sound, sculpture, writing, … The body acts as a starting point for a proliferation of potential choreographic materials. By framing the relationship between these mediums as a metaphor for hierarchical social order, he questions their stratification and inherent frictions. Inspired by rhizomatic thought, he approaches each element not as fixed, but as fluid and capable of generating endless new configurations and roots.