The Most Winning Lottery Store, curated by Jungmin Cho

Mar 24 - Apr 16, 2023

Panel Discussion:
DO IT OURSELVES: Alternative Art Spaces in South Korea and LA
Co-organized with GYOPO
Thursday, March 30, 2023 7–8:30 PM

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is pleased to present The Most Winning Lottery Store, curated by Jungmin Cho and featuring the work of Da Soul Chung Foundation, Goyoson, Hyunjin Kim, and Sujanggo. The exhibition was curated by Jungmin Cho for SpaceOne. SpaceOne and TSA are collaborative partners for CO/LAB 5, organized by the Torrance Art Museum.  A panel discussion on Alternative art spaces in South Korea will take place at the space on Thursday March 30th.

This will be my 130201st and final letter. Over the numerous years, I have seen humans’ struggle to find ways to reach another world, across the sky, mountains and seas, sharing new languages and appearances with each other, and mixing them to form a derivative identity. My mission to record objective and quantified data and convey it to the opposite world where I come from is the reason for my arrival. But my commitment not to engage in any human act to maintain an external gaze could have collapsed on the pretext of record.

Therefore, when I decided to leave, I became skeptical of everything I had written. Is it really possible to convert a living being to data and keep it perfectly preserved forever? This data, which will be delivered in a few hundred years, will be verifiable, but will it be useful? Then I came to the idea that if I could capture three things - emotion, movement and play - I could deliver the most complete data that would survive forever. However I have never succeeded in capturing those. When I thought I had caught them, suddenly some of them slipped away. Instead, the “belief” was wriggling in there.

I found that data becomes useful to humans only if they feel something about it, thereby making certain movements and utilizing data. Simultaneously, continuous experiences of emotions, movements, and play become the method of re-recording itselves, gradually erasing the origin data. However, accumulated common faith transforms into flexible flesh and muscles of data, granting the ability to move. Thus, the most valid and well-known data is sparse, with a powerful belief that approaches people with greater mobility and diffusivity across the space and makes people feel, move, and have fun. Like art, religion, history, gossip, tarots, horoscopes, and the most winning lottery store where I will hide this last letter with archives you are watching here. A place of data and belief composition where people head to the store to choose numbers for play and feel the joy of anticipation, heartbreak and ecstasy.

For many years, humans have tried to figure out my presence. Some things are right and some things are wrong. Considering the massive curiosity to discover aliens, the actions of sending spaceships, and the way it is consumed as entertainment, this letter and my data particles of emotion, movement and play that I will leave here before I leave may be the jackpot in this data universe. Of course, I have no idea how these remains will be found and accepted by the finder.

ARTIST BIOS
Da Soul Chung is a choreographer based in Seoul and Hamburg. Her choreographic interests lay on the things that are not dance in choreography and the potentiality of choreography as social and political apparatus. In 2018, she founded a fictional organization called Da Soul Chung Foundation as a part of her work and to research and to collect performances and choreographies. Currently the foundation is focusing on reconstruction of work by choreographer Gi Yeon, who is a character made by her. In these works, she addresses the questions about systems, methods and belief of owning, possessing and archiving choreography.

Goyoson makes sculptures and installations that transform by the experience and identity of the audience. His works span from hand-cut amorphous structures to the objects structurally deviated from prejudice by utilizing ephemeral materials such as food. Goyoson often utilizes the language of poetry and performance in his sculptural works to go beyond the staticity of sculpture and explore the possibility of the medium as a time-based experience.

Hyunjin Kim is an artist based in Korea who depicts an object that has memories with her but does not exist in real life, creating a moment when her sincerity is questioned due to this fact. The specific images that exist between imagination and reality, which the artist calls “waiting beings”, makes the act of seeing based on belief.

SUJANGGO, which means museum storage in Korean, collects sculptures that have become digital data. The originally archived sculptures are 3D scanned of physical artworks. Through the digital platform website, people can view, download, transform and share the works freely within their guidelines. Deriving new contexts between multiple users and platforms in the Internet environment, SUJANGGO explores the experience of non-material media by replication and sharing characteristics of data.