The film builds on Yaloo’s Underwater Trilogy, a series of films, immersive installations and written works. These explore a wide range of ideas across K-culture, capitalism, folklore, cultural identity and stereotypes within the CG industry, all presented from a critical post-human lens.

In the film, a metahuman character appears, biologically entangled with seaweed, in a dreamlike environment. This character refers to a fictional species evolved through hybridisation, whose birth and evolution were driven by changes in dietary patterns due to environmental issues. The character’s hair resembles a female figure that appears in a cave painting in the former Korean kingdom of Goguryeo.

Alternating ROO is a short clip that documents Yaloo’s grandmother, Shin In-Ho, as she is 3D scanned. This forms part of the pre-production for Yaloo’s new worldbuilding project which follows Shininho, an 86-year-old Korean K-pop idol and notorious pirate of the East Asian Ocean.

ROO was originally premiered at The Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (GMoMA) and has been adapted for the corner screen in Soho Photography Quarter.

Credits

Roo
Animation: Yaloo
Animation assistant: JongHoon Ahn, Angus Oakes, Hamin Song
Sound: Yetsuby

Shininho
Video: Yaloo
Sound: Yetsuby

Yaloo is a South Korean visual artist working with digital media. She earned BFA and MFA in video art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the USA. She has been selected for fully funded international residencies such as Zer01ne and Asia Culture Center in Korea, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, Western Front and La Bande Video in Canada, the Headlands Art Center and Bemis Studio Art Center in the USA. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and screenings around the world..  She was awarded a Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Scholarship by Video Data Bank, USA and won a Gold Prize in visual arts from the AHL Foundation in New York.  She is a recent Gyeonggi MoMA & IBK Young Artists Award Winner and completed a solo exhibition at Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Korea. She has recently undertaken a residency at Pier 2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan in collaboration with Zara Arshad as part of Geofictions.

She is a professor at the department of Experimental Animation, School of Film/Video, California Institute of the Arts.