Fighting Erotics - Grace Euna Kim
Grace Euna Kim
Euna is researching speculative strategies of unlearning violence through sonic and performative encounters.
Building on her long-term Acid Bodies research, she is examining the erotic dynamics within historical cycles of oppression and resistance, and their implications in neofascist mobilizations. This is grounded in a case study of embattled patriarchy and the tensions of aggrieved masculinity that are shaping far-right extremist movements. The research engages psychoanalytic and critical analyses of archival, anthropological, digital ethnographic, and Manosphere field research, with a focus on the transatlantic geopolitical context. It examines the aesthetics, performatives, and choreopolitics of fascism, the modes of its resistance, and the entanglements of masculinism, feminism, and redemptive ultranationalism that are consolidating authoritarian movements and regimes.
Parallel to this, Euna is researching psychoacoustics and sonic embodiment as erotic-political terrains. She is exploring their potential to make the political legible through sensuous lived choreographies. While experimenting with sonic energy instruments, she is studying sonic vibrations and frequencies—how they affect and mediate bodies, and how they reflect patriarchal, feminist, colonial, and post-colonial microstructures. She is also examining sociopolitical functions of audible and inaudible sound, including the uses and abuses between care and violence in established practices of healing, attunement, political torture, and warfare.
