High Gear

High Gear is a solo performance that explores a corporeal collection of figures drawn from parasitized intimate memories, intertwined with imagery from alternative manga. Through this excavation, Kidows Kim questions the relentless cycle of production, consumption, and reincarnation. Rather than reproducing these patterns, a central figure seeks to subvert their mechanisms, disrupt their repetition, and break free from their hold.

Inspired by the structure of yonkoma manga, a type of four-panel comic often used in political journalism, Kim delves into four fundamental themes: 1起) birth, 2承) eating, 3轉) working, and 4結) death. The work unfolds within a closed circuit where representations are continuously absorbed, (de)constructed, and (re)formed. In this process, meanings accumulate, collide, and blur the boundaries between subject, object, and abject.

Within the interstices of this amalgamation of noise and gazes, a fragmented, ghostly body struggles to find its way. It bears witness to the uncanny that takes root in the familiar and the growing distance that, despite physical proximity, spreads across space.

Through High Gear, Kim creates an excluded space where the body exposes and decomposes itself in pursuit of an elusive exterior.