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Library of Movement
Library of Movement is an evolving series of zines, performances, and interdisciplinary artworks that document how movement can archive memory, place, and emotion.
Each volume is developed within a specific residency context and shaped through collaboration with local artists and communities. The series explores how dance and embodied experience can be translated into visual, textual, and performative forms, transforming the ephemeral into something that can be held, shared, and remembered.
Every iteration becomes a new zine and online gallery, recording gestures, stories, tasks, and energies that belong to a particular place and its people.
While influenced by dance notation research, the project's aim is not accuracy or formal documentation. Instead, it explores how the feeling of movement can be captured creatively through multiple forms - both digital and physical.
Mess is Necessary Zine Volume 1
Being an artist it's necessary to be MESSY.
To be MESSY means you're exploring new ways to create
This Zine was created at the Strand Arcade in Tāmaki Makaurau, a row of abandoned shops in central Auckland, it's been a joy activating shop no.9 over the space of a couple weeks in June 2024.
Collated movement tasks scores and doodles!
It's just Dancing.
I'm not doing anything fancy, I'm not even a graphic designer. I'm not even a "good" dancer.
I'm just a Messy Yunha
Mess is Necessary:
Pop Up Space - Digital Online Gallery
DotDot's Platform to create a virtual space that supports the physical zine!
Link Here: https://fr0m.short.gy/RADP8E
홀로있지 않아, Not in the Hollow - Zine Volume 2
"홀로있지 않아, Not in the hollow" - How a place has a certain strength 힘 and warmth 온기. Exploring the relationship between movement, space, memory, and spirituality.
I exist constantly between tangible and intangible spaces.
Movement, for me, is ephemeral and relational.
It disappears once performed, yet I seek ways to extend its presence through other mediums. It's a physical practice yet once the movement ends, it no longer exists in the space. That's also the beauty of live performance: you have to be in the room to truly feel its energy.
Spaces have a physical architectural element yet the experience of a space is ancestral, relational, cultural.
The memories in these places are intangible yet we try to preserve these, to keep them alive. Even if these memories aren't mine, I'm holding the memories of my family and those that have come before me.
There are spiritual realms at play in art-making, whether we choose to acknowledge them or not.
Being an artist is a deeply human act, and that humanness is inherently spiritual. We all carry spirit just as spaces carry spirit. Talking about my spirituality within my arts practice has sometimes felt out of place. Yet in everything I create, there is a persistent narrative of human connection.
Embodying spaces to keep them alive, to keep our memories alive.
Created in GwangJu South Korea during my four month residency at Horanggasy Creative Studio.
In collaboration with Seoul Graphic Designer Juhyun Lee and photos by Seungwoo Hong.
If you'd like a physical copy of the Zines please send me an email~
Pōneke Contemporary Dance Festival
I was invited to be a part of the residency and present the physical zine and online portal through the first Pōneke Contemporary Dance Festival hosted by Te Auaha and Footnote Dance Company in 2024
Video of performance: https://youtu.be/Z3ifggFoa-k</p>