body language (2020)

The body in illness is never still.
Serpentine, it stretches wide and circles back, shedding loops.
The molt throws long shadows,
both foreign and familiar.

body language is a multichannel video installation that explores the physical and psychological experience of living with systemic lupus.

Three projectors face a long, uninterrupted wall to cycle through a collection of 24 individual videos that feature the artist’s body. This living network of video collages include medical imagery, journalistic text, hand drawn and metamorphic animations, bodycam footage, cut-out video stills, and rotoscoped clips of the artists own body running in place. Similar to the conditions of lupus and autoimmune disease, the piece behaves independently of the artist and shifts through transformed and unrecognizable glimpses of the human body through its use of overlapping and random playback.

Given the nature of randomized playback across all three projectors, the montage of images differs upon every viewing.
This piece plays on repeat/loop with no set duration or sound.

produced, animated, and edited by Lynn Kim
2020, looped video installation



SELECT SCREENINGS / ANTICIPATED SCREENINGS:

“Ballast” at Urban Arts Space: Columbus, OH
2020, February - “body language” included in group show.