ON DISPLAY project Lake Studio, 23 mins 18 sec, Performance Score Video
Part 1. 반찬 Ban Chan Part 2. 小鉢 Kobachi Part 3. Side Dish Part 4. Hot Pot
This work began as a reflection on how the 45-minute performance Chōri Dance could be translated into the medium of video. Rather than serving as a simple documentation, the video functions as a score, posing the question: How can we record our bodies?
Unlike the Western notion of the "melting pot," which tends to erase individual identities and differences, Chōri Collective proposes the "hot pot" as a metaphor for coexistence—a shared space where diverse ingredients retain their distinct shapes and flavors. This idea becomes both a choreographic metaphor and a method of working together.
The video is structured in four parts. Parts 1 to 3 are titled with words meaning "small dish" or "side dish" in Korean (banchan), Japanese (kobachi), and English (side), respectively. These sections draw on Chōri Collective’s ongoing research into East Asian gymnastics, ancestral rituals, choreographic notation (mubo), and nonhuman movements, twisting and questioning conventional methods of bodily recording.
These three parts culminate in Part 4: Hot Pot—a convergence where all ingredients mix, forming a dish, a proposition, and a living score.
