Yeongseo Jee

Over two days at De Appel, ‘Collective Study in Times of Emergency’ brought together texts, voices, music, films, artworks, digital images, and printed materials – creating a space where individual and collective research and archives came into dialogue. This video reflects on moments when international solidarity with the Palestinian resistance intersected with solidarity against South African apartheid. These encounters revealed the archive not just as a site of preservation, but as a living network – crossing borders of geography, time, and form. What futures do these archives hold? What kinds of solidarity will we imagine and practice in a distant future, once these materials have decomposed and become part of us? As Matter Speaks moves across different traces of the 'Collective Study' programme, summoning a space between permanence and fragility, where archives circulate endlessly.

As the relationship with her girlfriend frays at the edges, Mimi tries to apprehend the symptoms of an impending breakup.

A letter to our mother Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A gesture of love and memory.

Beyond the far landforms of earth's surface, symbiotic shivers resonates, troubling the chimerical boundaries of life and of the elements.

Two girls play mock car crashes, which are commonly used for educational purpose in American high schools. They interpret themselves as victims of a tragic accident and/or a young couple who have fallen in love with each other.

Over two days at De Appel, ‘Collective Study in Times of Emergency’ brought together texts, voices, music, films, artworks, digital images, and printed materials – creating a space where individual and collective research and archives came into dialogue. This video reflects on moments when international solidarity with the Palestinian resistance intersected with solidarity against South African apartheid. These encounters revealed the archive not just as a site of preservation, but as a living network – crossing borders of geography, time, and form. What futures do these archives hold? What kinds of solidarity will we imagine and practice in a distant future, once these materials have decomposed and become part of us? As Matter Speaks moves across different traces of the 'Collective Study' programme, summoning a space between permanence and fragility, where archives circulate endlessly.

As the relationship with her girlfriend frays at the edges, Mimi tries to apprehend the symptoms of an impending breakup.