Weaving Turns
Jung-Ah Kim, video still from Magic Portal, 2025. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Jung-Ah Kim
Project Room
October 28–November 15, 2025
Opening reception: Saturday, October 25, 5pm
Weaving Turns is a durational, participatory weaving performance that reimagines the frame loom as both a collaborative tool and a shared game board. Inspired by two-player board games like Go—which often focus on competition and territorial gain—this project invites an alternative kind of play based on co-creation, slowness, and reciprocity.
PARALLEL PROGRAMMING
Participatory performances will take place throughout the exhibition—stay tuned for more information soon.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Trained in film and video, I have expanded my practice into textiles— primarily weaving—bridging media and fibre through conceptual and material experimentation. I approach weaving as more than a craft: it is a lens for exploring technology, culture, and the stories embedded in tools and materials. My work involves reenactment and hands-on processes that reveal embodied knowledge, analog-digital dialogue, and the migrations of people and objects.
In my previous project Weaving Encounters, I explored the embodied and collaborative dimensions of technology through weaving, as well as the politics of forgotten objects, and the process of learning through reenacting and reconstructing an ancient warp-weighted loom from raw materials.
With Weaving Turns, I expand my exploration by proposing weaving as a site of collective resistance, play, and making—a shared space for connection, slowness, and acts of repair, rather than a struggle over land and resources, as often seen in conventional board games.
Jung-Ah Kim is a filmmaker/researcher/curator from South Korea, based in Kingston, Canada. She is currently doing a Ph.D. degree in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies at Queen’s University. Prior to coming to Queen’s, she received her MFA in Documentary Media from Northwestern University (2019) in Chicago. Her films have been screened and won awards in various venues and festivals across North America and South Korea. She is interested in experimenting with material conditions and processes of both digital and craft media to make images move.