Artist
Jinhan Ko

https://www.anti-loft.org/jinhanko/jinhan_ko.htm

Jinhan Ko is a multimedia artist best known for his video and performance work. He has presented work across Canada and the US, including many lo-tech spectaculars under the name Jin’s Banana House. More recently, he has been instrumental in animating Toronto’s DIY visual art scene as one of a key instigators of the Money House and Instant Coffee.

Performance
Urban Disco Trailer by Jinhan Ko

FADO is pleased to present the latest work of artist Jinhan Ko as part of theĀ Public Spaces/Private PlacesĀ series. Jin’s Banana House is back with Urban Disco Trailer, a small-scale multimedia extravaganza that redefines the dance club experience. The raw material for this project is a 25-foot long 1974 Holiday Cruiserā€”one of those pull-behind camping trailers originally designed to accommodate up to six people with the modern comforts of home. The transformed Urban Disco Trailer has been retrofitted with not-so-modern technology approximating a discotheque. Follow this impromptu, intimate discotheque-for-the-21st-century as it circulates the city.

Jin’s Banana House wants to know how we can be bored in a world where television is filled with dating game shows and cooking networks and the internet is filled with more shopping than we know what to do with? I’m not offering an answer to this question, but I’m inviting you to Urban Disco Trailer… This wheeled disco offers you the aura of utopian desires associated with motor travelling without leaving the parking lot. Club goers and art patrons alike are encouraged to attend this private/public party.

Jinhan Ko

August 17ā€“19, 2000
35 Liberty Street, Toronto

August 24ā€“26, 2000
101 Niagara Street, Toronto

Performance Yellow

This fragrance opens us to the question, has the show started? It's winter, the theatre is colder than the street and the room is filled with people and all their winter smells: wet faux leather, down, too much shampoo, and beer breath. The atmosphere is a trickster. Am I late, am I early?

Top Notes

yellow mandarin, mimosa

Middle Notes

honey, chamomile, salt

Base Notes

narcissus, guaiac wood, piss, beer