Circling of Life
HAE YOUNG JI
Switzerland
Development Stage
FINISHED
FINISHED
11'
VO. English
Circling of Life is a fictional narrative that follows the reincarnation of a factory woman from the 1970s into a human and a tree. Hae Young Ji explores here the human as a part of an ecology with life rather than just a component of technocratic society.
Presentation

HAE YOUNG JI
Hae Young Ji is interested in the formation of human consciousness by digital algorithms. She explores anxiety, focusing on the loss of human subjectivity caused by new technologies. In her videos, she builds fictional scenarios while developing narratives that question the temporality and rationality of technology. She often uses animistic Korean traditional stories, and it contributes to creating non-deductive narratives.
