Vertigo

[Location] Tokyo, Japan / London, UK

[Medium] Video Installation / Experimental Film / Photography

[Role] Movement Performer

[Collaborator] SungHoon Song (Visual Artist / Director)

[Link]NOWNESS ASIA Feature

[About]

There's a particular kind of dizziness that comes not from falling, but from standing still — from realising that stability itself is precarious. That's the territory Vertigo inhabits.

Created with visual artist and experimental filmmaker SungHoon Song, this project exists as two outputs: a video installation projected onto walls and ceilings, and an experimental film — both drawing on Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, specifically the dream sequences of Tereza. As movement performer, my body navigates between anxiety and composure, between the desire to rise and the pull toward surrender. The choreography doesn't illustrate these states — it holds them simultaneously, letting the viewer feel the vertigo from within.

In the installation version at Zero Space, Tokyo, audiences watched the ceiling projection through a mirror placed at their feet. The act of looking down to see upward — the disorientation of that reversal — is the work itself. You experience Tereza's most stable moment while your own balance quietly unravels.

The photographic version was exhibited as part of the group show You're Innocent in Your Dreams (Sep 2024), featuring 38 artists from 16 countries. The film was editorially selected by NOWNESS ASIA — one of the most respected digital platforms for contemporary art and moving image in the region.