XR Installation, Theater an der Ruhr, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, 2024
Animation: Jin-A Lee, Hojin LEE Sound: Hojin LEE Watch documentation
A continuation and expansion of the D.I universe, D.I II deepens the exploration of internal multiplicity.
New characters emerge, each occupying their own psychic and emotional space.
Their co-presence in the XR environment reflects the instability and coexistence at the heart of dissociative experience.
In the Head
XR Installation, Cologne, Germany, 2024
Animation: Jin-A Lee, Hojin LEE Sound: Hojin LEE Watch documentation
This intimate and emotionally charged work links dissociative identity with early childhood trauma. Before entering the XR environment—an immersive rendering of a dissociative inner world—visitors read excerpts from a fictionalized survivor’s diary. The installation is surrounded by four massive mirrors that extend the space and distort visual perception, heightening the confusion between what is real and what is simulated. The experience culminates in a space for reflection—on attachment, memory, survival, and the multiplicity of the self.
Dissociative Identity I
XR Installation, Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2024
Animation: Claude Wear, Jiwoo Kim, Hojin LEE Sound: Hojin LEE Technical Support: Yoonah Song Watch documentation
The first chapter introduces the audience to a world where multiple identities share a single space. Fragmented memories, layered voiceovers, and shifting perspectives challenge the boundaries between observer and participant, self and other.
Characters
XR Installation & Single-channel videos, Cologne, Germany, 2023
Animation: Claude Wear, Jiwoo Kim, Hojin LEE Sound: Hojin LEE Technical Support: Tadaomi Kageyama Watch XR documentation
Characters gives internal selves a space to exist both independently and relationally. The installation features a shared XR environment inhabited by multiple identities, as well as two accompanying single-channel video works—Thread LEE and Face KIM—which offer focused portraits of two distinct selves.
In the XR space, real and virtual mirrors confront the viewer with layered reflections of the self and others. Meanwhile, the animations explore the emotional logic of these characters in poetic, symbolic form.
Thread LEE
Single-channel video, 3min 5sec, 2023
Animation: Hojin LEE Sound: Ting Chun Liu
Thread LEE cannot stop crying. Her tears form threads—delicate yet unending. As they accumulate, they overwhelm her, forcing her to find a way to process them in her own instinctive, bodily language.
Face KIM
Single-channel video, 3min 8sec, 2023
Animation: Hojin LEE Sound: Ting Chun Liu
Face KIM’s body and head are constantly separated—especially during moments of emotional shock. The body endlessly searches for the head, but the character seems condemned to live in this fragmented state, gradually accepting it as part of her fate.