This catalog was published in conjunction with Kim’s 2024 exhibition ACC: Future Prize 2024, Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse. The work follows female delivery drivers En Storm and Ernst Mo (whose names are anagrams of “monster”). Featuring live-action footage from actors in real locations, the works—which Kim describes as “pandemic fiction”—center labor within the gig economy, which skyrocketed in both Korea and the US during recent years.  

National Asian Culture Center | 228 pages | paperback | 150 color images

Ayoung Kim (Korean, b. 1979), based in Seoul, works with video, virtual reality, sound, and text to create narratives that collide geopolitics, synthesize mythologies, and interrogate technologies.