HARIBO KIM CHI

A practitioner of hybrid performances blending text, music, video, and robotics, director, composer and video artist Jaha Koo invites the audience to the counter of a pojangmacha (포장마차), one of those small street stalls typical of Seoul. Open until late at night, it becomes the refuge of a gallery of colourful characters—eel, snail, gummy bar—each with their own stories, by turns touching and absurd. The flavour of a seaweed soup, the sharp sound of a knife slicing an onion, or the crackling of mushrooms simmering over high heat… In this snack bar, South Korean cuisine becomes the starting point for a great journey and a broad reflection on the paradoxes of cultural assimilation.