Mikhail Karikis at Wapping Project

Exhibition

Wapping Project

Mikhail Karikis at Wapping Project

Fri 25 May '12 - Sun 8 Jul '12

Wapping Project
Wapping Hydraulic Power Station
London E1W 3SG
Tel: 020 7680 2080

SeaWomen presents a new body of work by Mikhail Karikis focusing on a community of female sea workers living on the N.Pacific island of Jeju - a volcanic rock between S.Korea, Japan and China. Operating outside the currents of modernisation, this old and fast diminishing community consists of 50-90 y/o women who dive to great depths with no oxygen supply to catch sea-food, collect seaweed and find pearls. Karikis’s immersive installation consists of a film, a sound work and watercolour paintings. It depicts the vocal practices of the women, including the unique sounds of their ancient and transgenerationally-transmitted breathing technique, their work-songs resonating in their camps, the noises of their democratic decision-making, and of other communal activities.

The project witnesses the women’s insistence on sustainable practices operating outside the trend of industrialization; it observes their reversal of traditional gender-roles, their deep sense of community and egalitarianism, their collective economics, and sense of professional identity and purpose in later age.

Entry:

Free

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