Displaced Nostalgia: Itch
2025 IA Current Closing Performance
Saturday, December 6, 11 – 6PM
InterAccess (32 Lisgar St, Toronto ON)
FREE, Register here
To edge is to leave the itching body behind
In this performance, no phones are permitted. No watches. Performers do not talk to each other. With every feeling of an hour passing, JeeMin begins her labour, which prompts Sheung-King to write. At the end of his writing, he leaves a prompt for the audience to respond to. Between each feeling of an hour, performers rest.
Viewers are invited to attend the performance at any time throughout the 7-hour runtime. Movement occurs roughly once every hour, roughly on the hour. Between these times, viewers are invited to participate in the live writing prompt or the act of waiting.
This performance is presented as part of the 24th Annual IA Current Exhibition, Edging the Unscratchable Digital Itch, curated by Lingxiang Wu.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
JeeMin Kim is an artist from Seoul, South Korea with a BA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, an MA in Critical Practice from the Royal College of Art, London, and a PhD in Painting from Hong Ik University. Her ongoing research and solo exhibition series, Prototype Temple, unfolds within constructed stage-like spaces where forms of various civilisations and ruins are layered together. The project questions the fictive nostalgia produced by Western archaeology and colonial perspectives. Kim’s works have also been featured at Horse Hospital Gallery, London (2019), Art Council Korea (2021), Culture Station Seoul 284 & Namsan Library, Seoul (2023), and K&L Museum, Seoul (2024).
Sheung-King Aaron Tang is a novelist from Vancouver. His novel, Batshit Seven, published by Penguin Random House, won the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was named one of the best books of 2025 by the Globe and Mail. His debut novel, You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked (Book*hug Press, 2020), is a finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Award, a finalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, longlisted for CBC's Canada Reads 2021, and named one of the best book debuts of 2020 by the Globe and Mail. Sheung-King was born in Vancouver and grew up in Hong Kong.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Lingxiang Wu is a Chinese queer visual artist, chronically online researcher, and compulsive overthinker currently based in Toronto, Canada. His work critically engages with digital aesthetics, invisible labor, and algorithmic culture, addressing our entanglement within the attention economy. Spanning photographic collage, video, animation, and installation, his practice explores how contemporary digital culture and technology influences ways of being under the spell of neoliberal capitalism, humorously trying to process his own productivity dysmorphia. His research-driven projects, Digital Landfill and Performative Digital Bodies, examine the cycle of production and consumption facilitated through desires and immediate gratifications. Wu has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and has exhibited internationally in Canada, the United States, and South Korea. He holds an MFA from OCAD University and is committed to fostering critical discourse on digital culture and image making.
ABOUT IA CURRENT
The InterAccess Current (IA Current) program supports the professional development of emerging curators and artists interested in new media and electronic practices. Each year, InterAccess selects an emerging curator, who works closely with InterAccess staff to conceptualize and execute an exhibition of works by emerging artists. “Current” refers to the now, of course, but it is also an energetic charge that causes light, heat and all manner of electronic life; an apt metaphor for emergent creative practices within the ever-expanding field of new media.
Image credit to the artists.