"Spread across the third-floor galleries at MoMA PS1, the video installations in Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer Codex synthesize live-action footage, video game engines, and generative AI to create an interlocking series of speculative narratives centered on two female drivers, En Storm and Ernst Mo. "Delivery Dancer's Sphere" (2022), the first in the trilogy, presents a gamified delivery system in which a "Dancemaster" distributes assignments, directing drivers throughout the city."
"Its demand for optimization compels the drivers to bend space and time, eventually rendering them invisible as they reach the highest level, that of the "Ghost Dancer." Storm and Mo's individuality - undermined by their identical physicality, performed by a single actress - suggests capitalism's homogenizing effects, in which workers are indistinguishable and interchangeable. Their relationship, too, remains ambiguous; it is unclear whether they are lovers or enemies, or even a hallucination of each other."
Ayoung Kim stages an interlocking video trilogy at MoMA PS1 that blends live-action footage, video game engines, and generative AI to imagine a city shaped by capitalism and memory. Two female drivers, En Storm and Ernst Mo, perform identical physicality and operate within a gamified delivery economy run by a central "Dancemaster." The system prioritizes optimization, pushing drivers to bend space and time and ascend toward invisibility as the "Ghost Dancer." Homogenized bodies and ambiguous relations between the drivers critique the erasure and interchangeability of labor. Technical elements include multi-channel video, lighting installations, random playback, and sundial sculptures.
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