Prompt: Watch and Chill season 3 explores the ways in which the methods of storytelling and imaging conjure immersion and suspense, bringing together the works of artists, designers, and filmmakers that experiment with the psyche of uncanny, abnormality, shape-shifting, mutable bodies, and related implications today. Shedding light on the idiosyncratic tension quested by contemporary practitioners of moving-image, the exhibition aspires to probe alternative narratives and worldings that destabilize the status quo.

Streaming Suspense consists of five subtopics. “Landscape under Moonlight” reflects on the idea of an “uncanny valley,” the borderline between familiarity and mystery. Capturing the moment of transition from the sense of comfort to discomfort, it strives to track down the psychological shift when entering unknown territory. “Assembly of Evidence” looks at the forensic efforts that investigate the traces of crime—either in history or in fictional stories—to understand the hidden truth in our reality.“Mutable Corpus” deals with the bodies that morph into something else. From parasitic viruses to mass crowds of people, it attempts to reveal the ways in which mutation occurs in various bodily scales. “Performance of the Undead” inquires how performing becomes a means of survival. It explores the examples of re-enacting discontinued lives and heritages, transcending the normative temporality. Finally,“Post-dystopian Worldbuilding” probes the possible universes as imagined alter-worlds to overcome the challenging conditions of our time.

Photo credit: Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Verses of Filth, 2021, installed at the MMCA; Photo: Cheolki Hong