“The Old and Wrong Way of Seeing Things” was a derogatory term used by Westerners to describe shamanism in North Asia, and which I use as a point of departure for my new project that utilizes Korean shamanism as a means for decolonizing Asian queer identity. By examining binary relationships like good and evil, cause and effect, the project investigates how homosexuality was persecuted in Western religious practices and explores how shamanism remains relevant today as a force of transformative liberation. 

The project is divided into two narratives. “Fire and Faggot” (2019), an installation with a massive chimney adorned with laser-cut sci-fi designs, depicts the birth of a new human being through a Korean shamanic ritual of fire. In shamanism, fire is transformational. A large burning talisman of a human body composed of queer terms written in archaic Chinese, transports the posthuman queer to a new space that exists outside heteronormative systems of power. "Kiss of Chaos,” (2020) is a video about a present-day shaman (HornyHoneydew) who encounters Nature (drag monster Hoso). By using the visual language of K-pop, the work both comments on the tragic commercialization of shamans in today’s Korea, while also questioning the hetero dichotomies of the K-pop industry. Through dance and song, the shaman embraces the disorder of the world, and thus dissolve the categories that divide us from each other.