Exhibition Information

			With artists engaged in artistic activities through social media on the rise, there are also artists who simultaneously operate multiple artist identities with complex accounts.Previously, the media, concepts, and attitudes of the work have been expanded to mean the entire activities of the writer, who are expressed in different identities depending on a single writer's character, style, and priorities. Furthermore, the writer's identity is showing a new tendency, combining with social media. The existing constructive, media-oriented, growth-type writer's identity has moved in a complex, fragmented, and collaborative direction. With this perspective, <TAP UNTAP> follows the artistic activities of two artists, Kim Sollee and Kim Hye-won, through their social media accounts.

Kim Sollee has continued her activities in various fields, including sculptor, DJ, fashion pictorial model, movie actor, and meme collector. Realistic activities that may seem somewhat fragmentary are re-contained on the author-run social media. The author's account names include the words "keaygen" and "cycling." 'Kizen' is a serial number generator that often hacks paid software. The author uses an expedient modification of the classical territories of art, such as unique areas of activity in a particular field, genre classification, or media-based work. Cycling is a direct translation of circulation. The fragmented activities of the author are economic and penetrating each other and are linked to various identities within the writer's ecosystem.

Kim Hye-won creates distributed activities for various purposes, including paint, 3D knit drop-in, face mapping, daily collection, and art viewing. It moves Instagram's daily feed to Converse Heaven, "follows up" Seoul's contemporary art scene with selfies as its daily routine, reconstructs the flat work of fellow artists into 3D knits, thoroughly distinguishes the commercial and hobby uses of K-pop idols, and maintains different independent identities. Therefore, the 'transition' of the account is performed as an important function for the writer's activities. In a media environment where multiple identities are mixed and divided, the writer rather uses a method of freezing various activities by connecting them to multiple identities.

It is now more versatile to replace 'work' with 'activity'.'Activity' will be seen again as 'account' and 'account' again as 'identity'. Participatory "accounts" that express their identity in a new way no longer show affectionate doubts or balls about the existing system. Just as they easily 'tap' a touchscreen, access an account, 'tap' it, and switch to another account, they don't care, distribute volatile tasks 24 hours later, plan collaboration between accounts, tag each other, and do multiple activities. <TAP UNTAP> recommends a new 'access' to contemporary author identities by tracking the ongoing activities of participating 'accounts'.