BEASTS




BEASTS is an autofictional live digital puppetry performance where a performer and her beastly digital doubles jointly navigate hybridity and liminality in the Korean diaspora. 

Between the Möbius strip of LA freeways and the neon alleys of Seoul, a diasporic narrator slips into the liminal realm of gwoemul: chimeric monsters from Korean folklore.

Guided by her infinitely wise child self, she inhabits the bodies of a thousand-year-old whale, a giant slug, a vengeful ghost haunting a karaoke room, and a rat-human horde swarming a street market. Moving between human and beast, self and other, and living and dead, she finds belonging in shapeshifting.
a Center for Unclassifiable Technologies and Experiences (C.U.T.E.) Project

Currently in development as part of Royal Shakespeare Company’s Interdisciplinary Fellowship and at Stanford University