Young Yu’S Rituals For Mourning?

Mourning Rituals is a performance-based video by Korean-American artists Ayoung Yu and Nicholas Oh, which reimagines the Korean ssitkimgut ritual. The ritual involves cleansing the spirits of the deceased and guiding them into the afterlife. Garmenting artist Ayoung Yu presents a choreography contemporizing the traditional Korean shamanic folk dance salpuri, which is traditionally centered on rituals that cleanse the deceased.

The 22-minute video explores themes of loss and renewal, featuring performances by the artist, dancer and choreographer Sohye Kim, and the artist’s mother. Through performance-based film, the artist reimagines precolonial Korean folk and spiritual practices to reflect contemporary diasporic perspectives. The video installation, “A young Yu: Morning Rituals”, is on display at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Museum until May 7th.

Yu’s collaboration with artist Nicholas Oh, who created immersive installations referencing ancestral ritual sites in Korea, helped to create this unique work. The installation is on view until May 7th at the Cantor Arts Center.

Mourning Rituals is a unique and powerful way for artists to explore themes of loss and renewal, addressing personal, ancestral, historical, and cultural experiences. The video installation is available until May 7th at the Cantor Arts Center and will be on view until May 7th.