Korean filmmaker Hangjun Lee and improvising musician Chulki Hong have collaborated since 2006 as the audiovisual research project “Expanded Celluloid, Extended Phonograph”. Their practice has explored the performativity of the darkroom, the screening room, the private studio, and here in live performance.

ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Mariana Valencia’s Originators is a choreography and lecture shaped from the language of history and dance. This dense activation of content doesn't claim itself to a genre— rather, Originators proposes a new space where blended mediums meet without a hierarchy of value.