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Ayoung Kim's 'Dancer In The Mirror Field' Commissioned by M+ and Powerhouse

Featuring objects from both museums' collections, the artwork premieres on the M+ Facade October 3

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Ayoung Kim's 'Dancer In The Mirror Field' Commissioned by M+ and Powerhouse

Featuring objects from both museums' collections, the artwork premieres on the M+ Facade October 3

Shopping malls are sites of commerce, culture and community. In Ayoung Kim’s upcoming work 'Dancer in the Mirror Field', a mall also becomes the stage for a new chapter in the evolving digital universe of Ernst Mo and En Storm, characters first introduced in Kim’s 'Delivery Dancer' in 2022.

Dancer in the Mirror Field, commissioned by M+ and Powerhouse, will premiere on M+’s iconic Facade overlooking Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour in October before its showcase at Powerhouse Parramatta next year. The work continues Kim's ongoing engagement with narrative world-building and speculative futures, expanding her richly layered digital universe, now rendered at an impressive scale on one of the largest media facades in the world.

For this commission, M+ and Powerhouse have digitised objects from their collections to appear in the work not simply as artefacts, but as portals and protagonists. Reimagined through Kim’s lens, these objects open up new ways of engaging with the collections: boundaries between fiction, urban space, past and present.

A still from Dancer in the Mirror Field, in which a costumed delivery driver stands staring at a neon sign

A still from Dancer in the Mirror Field, in which a delivery driver speeds through a sci-fi city, while driving a motorcycle

Ayoung Kim And 'Dancer In The Mirror Field'

Inspired in part by the choreography of classic Hong Kong action movies like Jackie Chan’s Police Story, as well as Peter Chung’s cult sci-fi 90s anime series Æon Flux, Dancer in the Mirror Field is the latest in the Delivery Dancer universe.

The film follows three versions of the protagonist Ernst Mo (an anagram for monster). Drivers for the Delivery Dancer platform, the three versions find themselves summoned to a colossal mall complex, where they race through the imagined Hong-Kong inspired cityscape to compete for the title of Dancer of the Year.