Residency Kidows Kim at Workshop Foundation

In the frame of the Dance Hub exchange activity, Kidows Kim is selected by ICI-CCN de Montpellier to participate in a residency at Workshop Foundation Budapest.

In “Cutting mushrooms”,Kidows is interested in the frustrated body transformation question. Indeed, Kidows finds an infinite potential in the control of the explosion, which makes a strangely inexact figure appear.

“An installation emerges, like the metamorphosis process of the butterfly. My mutation leaves a wet trace; I abandon my clothes like a chrysalis. Gradually, the space is filled with several shapes and objects that transform our perceptions. A myriad of shapes appear gradually and settle around me. They are frightening and disturbing, they collide in front of us and allow us to excavate deeply our intimate spaces. I intensify my research as a revealer of monsters.”

“Cutting mushrooms” is the continuation of Kidows Kim’s research on the absurdity inside monstrous phenomena.

Kim Kidows, together with his artistic collaborators, Hubert Crabières and Josiane Martinho have been working on their performance called “Cutting mushrooms”. In Cutting mushrooms, Kim is interested in the frustrated body transformation question. Indeed, Kidows finds an infinite potential in the control of the explosion, which makes a strangely inexact figure appear. (…) In Kidows’s practice, he produces sounds and states of turbulence through the distortion of my voice. He excavates a practice beyond textual language and singing. The brutality of the voice and the resonance of the body become an indefinable dance.

Kidows, Josiane and Hubert have been working on the research phase of the Cutting mushrooms art piece, which will be premiered in France next year. The artists have consulted with WSF staff, who introduced to them the local art scene of Budapest. The artists have been working in Trafo studio mostly and a few days in Grado studio as well. The studios are located in the two of the most important contemporary art lieux of Budapest, providing hands-on experience with the cultural scene of Budapest to the artists-in-residency. The staff of WSF ensured smooth communication and efficient cooperation with the artists during their time in Budapest.

View the experience report in the upper right column.