Miss Ginkgo: Chapter 1
2021. single-channel-video, color, sound. 04:37 mins
“MISS GINKGO” is a video series that utilizes the aesthetics of an explainer video to delve beyond a general introduction to the ginkgo, exploring the cultural and historical relationship between ginkgo and humans through easily understandable short stories.
The Chapter 1 tells a story of failure in a humorous tone, introduces how to find the trees and pick up ginkgo nuts in the city, and how to prepare them for cooking, and explores the gender selection of the ginkgo tree as a street tree, as well as the controllable and uncontrollable aspects that are subject to human greed.
View Exhibition: [Südflügel KulturBahnhof Kassel] [KW Institute for Contemporary Art] [Kunstverein in Hamburg] [Seoul Art Space Geumcheon] [Liangzhu Culture and Art Center]
“MISS GINKGO” is a video series that utilizes the aesthetics of an explainer video to delve beyond a general introduction to the ginkgo, exploring the cultural and historical relationship between ginkgo and humans through easily understandable short stories.
The Chapter 1 tells a story of failure in a humorous tone, introduces how to find the trees and pick up ginkgo nuts in the city, and how to prepare them for cooking, and explores the gender selection of the ginkgo tree as a street tree, as well as the controllable and uncontrollable aspects that are subject to human greed.
View Exhibition: [Südflügel KulturBahnhof Kassel] [KW Institute for Contemporary Art] [Kunstverein in Hamburg] [Seoul Art Space Geumcheon] [Liangzhu Culture and Art Center]
