Minouk Lim presents S.O.S–Adoptive Dissensus at Space OneZ, a three-channel video installation documenting the eponymous performance she conducted on Hangang River in 2009. The audience boarded a cruise at night to experience a live theatre whose chapters unfolded along the riverbanks. Seemingly spontaneous and quotidian situations involving people from all walks of life, from a former prisoner of conscience, to a young couple declaring each other their love, and a group of protestors carrying mirrors, reveal themselves as scenes of urban social dynamics. Their sequence evokes a haunting atmosphere of grief and remembrance for what has been lost.

Alongside this, Lim presents her newly commissioned work, S.O.S–Fire Butterfly, in the form of a performance on the waters off Busan that emerged through the artist’s research and collaborative process. Audiences board a 90-minute cruise departing from Jagalchi Market, sightseeing her performance documentary theatre. Drawing on research into Busan’s history as Korea’s wartime provisional capital, as well as its labour and pro-democracy movements, Lim remixes three songs from different genres that share the title Fire Butterfly, tracing and reweaving the city’s collective memory through them.

In S.O.S–Fire Butterfly, the audience embarks on a vessel that becomes a “temporary space” of its own—part classroom, part moving stage, part rave. The sea becomes a living archive where memories of the past resonate, and the harbour becomes a stage where departure and return, resistance and hope intertwine. In doing so, Minouk Lim invites the audience to move beyond the passive tourism towards a collective act of learning, listening, and reimagining the city.