How to draw a circle

This is a two-channel video installation and performance-based project that explores the entanglement of my identities as a K-POP fan, dancer, and cultural researcher. At its core is a repetitive, ritualistic gesture: I draw circles on the floor using pigments pulled metaphorically from inside my body, tracing the ground with different parts of myself. The act becomes a way to both resist and surrender to the forces of gaze, discipline, and performative femininity.

The project includes two videos recorded in a dance studio. One features a solo performance without an audience, where I interact only with light and space. The other was performed live before an audience, where I oscillate between introspection and the craving to be seen. My identity as a K-POP dancer resurfaces, clashing with my role as an artist, leading to an unexpected emotional breakdown.

A second video captures me at a K-POP fan dance event, fully immersed in the environment. Viewer and performer perspectives merge and interrupt each other through overlapping reflections, light flares, and ghostly silhouettes. Circles, mirrors, and refracted images become visual metaphors for the looped relationship between self and society, fiction and reality.

In the exhibition, the two videos are installed in the original dance studio space.