서울시립미술관 SEOUL MUSEUM OF ART

SeMA Project V at the Seo-Seoul Museum of Art is an experimental platform where urban memory and future technologies intersect. Operating in various spaces beyond the museum walls, the project encounters the audience within the expanded terrain of the city.

The platform’s inaugural project, Yaloo’s Shininho Landing (2026), is a polyphonic opera centered on Shininho, the artist’s 86-year-old maternal grandmother, who appears as a K-pop idol and “grandmother pirate” raiding data banks. As she lands upon the spatiotemporal data of West Seoul, she summons alternative sensibilities from the fringes, composing a narrative of the future that mutates and proliferates like an oral folktale.

Traversing the city’s strata where a labor-intensive industrial past overlaps with a present defined by IT servers and platforms, Shininho hijacks the visual and sensory data of West Seoul. Her piracy serves as a speculative methodology for rewriting history and reclaiming memory, fracturing systems that reduce people and cities to mere extractable resources.

Shininho’s elderly female body becomes a site of resistance against the logic of “total optimization.” Within a technological regime of acceleration, efficiency, and control, her body accumulates error, delay, and residue, carving out a space for alternative tempos.

In the museum's rear yard, a structure evocative of a landed pirate-spaceship or an aged data center houses octagonal LED panels. Through constant recombination, these panels visualize the quiet yet turbulent dynamics between body, object, ancestor, and data.

Shininho Landing integrates diverse technologies including MetaHuman, motion capture, and generative AI; it was produced in collaboration with a novelist, an architect, a musician, a graphic designer, a technical director, and an actor.