War Dance is an AI-powered moving-image work that asks how art can address Asian womxn’s realities in empowering ways, and how seemingly “natural” systems complicate their bodies and lives. Inspired by the Korean myth of the Sun and Moon Dogs (Bul-gae)—creatures destined to chase the sun and moon—and the optical phenomena of sundog and moondog, the work examines structures surrounding marriage, childbirth, intimacy, infertility treatment, adoption, and transnational marriage.
The womxn in War Dance are not passive orbiters. They become questioners, reflectors, and hackers of reality, making family dynamics, religious dogmas, economic systems, and even physical laws newly visible. “Trans-parenthood” names a radical mode of loving and parenting beyond biology, tradition, and imposed social norms. Their war dance is not an act of destruction, but one of revealing and actualising possibilities that previously seemed unimaginable.
AI is used here as an artistic and ethical problem rather than a technical spectacle. Its struggle to navigate the intersecting realities of Asian womxn mirrors the artist’s own; the process exposes stereotyped and discriminatory visual patterns and asks what an ethically responsible representation of faces, bodies, and identities might be.