Experimental Animation | K-COSMOSIS by Bomi Yook

August 1 - 3, 2025

10 - 5pm at Struts Gallery

Presented as part of L'Ambiance

a partnership with Sappyfest 

K-COSMOSIS explores the blended nature of cosmologies within Korean metaphysics. Weaving an intricate tale of relationality, the piece brings together multiple narratives across time and space, celebrating a multifaceted understanding of history, identity, ideology, and mythology. Informed by the Feminist and Queer philosophies of quantum physics, the piece uses procedurally generated particle systems to imagine the world through an ongoing blending. The piece invites viewers to see the world through osmosis rather than duality to reveal a profound sharedness and connection. Presented as part of L'Ambiance, our partnership with Struts Gallery.

Long Bio

Bomi Yook is a media artist based in Calgary, working with immersive media, experimental animation, and video performance. Yook holds an MFA from UCLA and a BFA from Alberta University of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited internationally—including Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles, Seoul, and Calgary. She is the winner of the 2023 Emerging Digital Artist Award in Toronto, Elaine Klown Klein Fellowship in Los Angeles, Vagner Mendonça-Whitehead New Media Caucus Award, and a Beyond Future Art Award Finalist. Her projects have been supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Commissioned by the City of West Hollywood, her video art was showcased at MIMA (Moving Image Media Art) Netflix owned public art screen on Los Angeles's iconic Sunset Boulevard.

In her ongoing research on colonial trauma and intergenerational memory, Yook has collaborated with prominent museums, archives, and activist groups, including the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum, the Justice Memory Solidarity Foundation, the Museum of Forced Mobilization History, the Foundation for Victims of Forced Mobilization, and the People’s Archive of Japanese Colonial History.