Jisoo Chung
Jason
2018/2021
Single-channel video, 5 min, 52 sec
Courtesy the artist

This work is on loan for the exhibition, Living Here, at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, June 20 - December 20, 2025

Growing up in South Korea, Jisoo Chung found herself both attracted and repulsed by the nation’s enthusiasm for new technology. The “prominent societal values of ‘productivity’, ‘efficiency’, and ‘functionality’ led me to question systems such as instruction, rules, and codes that are often used in technology,” she writes. Her skepticism towards unthinking rule-making became sharper after she moved to the United States in 2017 and found herself trying to navigate unfamiliar terms and jokes in a new language with its own set of grammatical expectations–English. Her practice evolved to focus on the places where dominant structures create a rift with reality. Jason was inspired by the English-language autocorrect technology that constantly changes her first name from “Jisoo” to “Jason.” By turning her own body–her hands and voice–into a Jason-identifying machine, she draws attention to the ludicrous confidence of the systems that insist on wedging her into a category where she doesn’t belong.