The evening will bring two artists at Cafe OTO: Kim Ku Lim and his daughter, Jessica Kim. It is their first collaborative stage, presenting both Kim Ku Lim’s early performances from the 70s to recent, and as well as, Jessica Kim’s new piece that reflects her independent practice, in London.

In 1970, Kim Ku Lim directed the musical happening ‘Sex on the Piano’ by Nam June Paik at the 1st Seoul International Contemporary Music Festival. The couple created a sound work when their feet accidentally touched the keyboard. For the first time, in 49 years, this event will be reenacted, in the similar course, there will be two performers directed by Kim Ku Lim. Followed by another significant work in Kim’s artistic career, ‘The Poet and Nail’, which was first announced in 1981 at Space Theatre, Seoul, South Korea, will be reinterpreted, named, ‘Untitled’, as a collaborative happening with his daughter. Moreover, they will join together to extend the event further with both their more recent pieces that will yield a very unique language to the two very distinct and independent artists.

Programme:
Sex on the Piano by Nam June Paik, directed by Kim Ku Lim, 1970
with Alejandro Villa Duran & Itzel García Solé
Untitled 1, 1981
Untitled 2, 2009
Untitled, 2019