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In this episode of SAQMI Play we’re diving into the world of animation, satire and world building that bridges between the animated and physical realms. Together we’re going to explore animation and its power to bring new worlds that lie long beyond our horizons to life.

The following conversation with Jeuno JE Kim and Sam Message followed our 14th edition of Nightfall - Queer Talks & Screenings - Animating Beyond the Horizon.

Here we asked: What does it mean when we reach into the utopian, the dystopian, beyond the real and the actual? 

The screening took place in Saqmis headquarter Frigga in Gothenburg March 20, 2024 and featured an assortment of enticing films which tickled our animation fantasies.

First out was Twosome by Mette Hansen, followed by 902 by Ville Hulling, LAMINA by Kría Rán “Bibi” Söring, Who is Gunnar? En könslig historia by Tilda Lovell, Benjamin’s flowers by Malin Erixon  and last but not least Whaled Women by Jeuno JE Kim and Ewa Einhorn.

Like i said, this conversation was part of our series Nightfall. Nightfall is a night of queer talks and screenings. Inviting artists to share and talk about their work and their process. Nightfall is both a showcase for finished work and a queer peer review for work in progress.

This edition of Nightfall was curated by Kolbrún Inga Söring and Sam Message in collaboration with Anna Linder.

So lets get stuck in with Jeuno and dig into their project Krabstadt and the processes behind it. Krabstadt is a fictional arctic borderland where nordic countries send unwanted people created by Jeuno JE Kim and Ewa Einhorn.

Visit Krabstadt here.

Jeuno Kim is a visual artist with a background in religion and feminist theology. She holds a MA from Harvard University and MFA from University of Illinois at Chicago. From 2007-2009 she worked in the Critical Studies Program at the Malmö Art Academy while exhibiting in the US, Europe,and Asia, as for example solo shows at Overgaden Center for Contemporary ArtCopenhagen and Art Sonje Center in Seoul. She has been working together with Ewa Einhorn, developing a feminist animation project Krabstadt. 

Kim is currently a BFA study leader and prorector at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and previously been a professor at the Funen Art Academy, and Senior Lecturer at the Fine Art and Craft department at HDK-Valand

Filmography Jeuno JE KIM 

Filmography, Ewa EINHORN 

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SAQMI Play is produced with support from City of Gothenburg.