Replay online premiere 'Untitled' curated by ikkibawiKrrr

This spring, The One Minutes presents a series of one-minute films recognizing plants as the bodies of gods, curated by Korean visual research band ikkibawiKrrr. The series consists of 14 One Minutes. The selected films were submitted from Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Rwanda, Serbia, South Korea, Taiwan, United Kingdom and United States.

»We focuse on the rising roots, perforated stems, and branches attached to the ground. Their appearance has a certain direction. Sometimes we call the plants strangers. However, perhaps we are the strangers, the ones who are not included in the network.

We focus on plants revealing their presence by themselves. In East Asia, since ancient times, people have believed in old trees, recognizing plants as the bodies of gods. In this context, the tree was a network that connected the sky and the land, as well as connecting villages to villages. In modern society, unfortunately, plants are regarded only as objects, and they have become a landscape to be viewed and a kind of object to be decorated out of necessity.

ikkibawiKrrr wants to show these One Minutes together based on the following criteria: a video that reveals the presence of the plant itself, a video that has the potential to communicate the presence of the plant, and a video that evokes a sense of strangeness in the viewer.

We hope to be together for a long time with the plants themselves, which once again reveal their presence through this One Minute Series.«

Participating artists:

ikkibawiKrrr

misha de ridder

Margarita Maximova

Erin E. Adams

Hilary Yip

Alan Power

Chris Furby

Miljana Nikovic

Adam Knight

Tianyi Zheng_

Remy Ryumugabe

Thea Josepha Konatsu

ikkibawiKrrr is a visual research band founded in 2021 that explores multifaceted links between plants and humanity, civilization and natural phenomena, and colonialism and ecology. Its current members are KO Gyeol, KIM Jungwon, and CHO Jieun.

In Korean, ikkibawi means “moss-rock” and krrr is an onomatopoeic word. Mosses live in the thin boundary between air and soil, adapt to their surroundings despite their tiny bodies, and expand their world along other worlds. The fact that the method of survival itself forms a movement, and that this movement sometimes thickens the layer of boundaries, is key to the practice of ikkibawiKrrr. Incorporating the way of mosses in its approach, the collective hopes to circulate its practice beyond individual projects and extend the boundary layer between life and art. ikkibawiKrrr presented their work at Documenta fifteen in Kassel in 2022.

This series was made possible by the support of Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Pictoright Fund and Stichting Stokroos.

In 2023 and 2024, we will evolve our globally oriented program, focused on solidarity, collectivity and equal allocation, with which we want to make more voices heard. Read more: http://u.pc.cd/hux

Using the forces of video, The One Minutes wants to contribute to creating spaces for free expression, collective imagination, and global solidarity in our different, yet deeply interconnected realities.

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