D I S S O L V I N G  +
B E C O M I N G  
(  work in progress  )


My name is 엄지윤 ( Um Ji-yoon ) It has been 6 years since I have been publicly using my Korean name. A decision I made at a time when I could deeply listen and move to my own voice and intuition. I am beginning to unravel my identity. Who am I?

My research and project(s) takes place in movement, photos, sound compositions, scores, poems, printed matter, drawings, paintings, installations, listening to ancestral stories, and autoethnographic research to uncover memories and to reclaim self and identity.

I have been collecting photos from my own past as well as my parents and ancestors. giving all the photos the same blue hue treatment, to imagine these memories happening together, all at once. mixing the chronological order of the photos, I am weaving the pasts to explore non-linear time. storytelling through images to understand my own truths and ancestral knowledge. The encountering of these images establish a new present reflection of self.


Through both minimal piano compositions and blindfolded movement practice, I am in conversation with navigating the unknown. moving in the dark with a few pieces of information to guide the way. What ancestral memories live in my body? How can I begin to decolonize my body to allow for ancestral understanding?

I dreamt we danced and dissolved into the night and we were everywhere at once


I hope for my research and projects to speak to those who are also on their own journey to reclaim their identities and connect with ancestral memories. I hope that my work can be the medicine that can help others move through things that haven’t been able to be put in words.

With love✨
Ji-yoon.







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photo, dance, sound composition, video
work in progress
2023