The Project


Main concepts
- Creating Countermemory (”Foucault defined counter-memory as an individual's resistance against the official versions of historical continuity) of “Korean Liberation” after WWII

- Power Struggles Korea has through cultural exchanges (Hallyu - “The Korean Wave”,  soft power moves by the Korean government) / military power

- Water, the Ocean as a landscape of imagination, questioning, curiosity, fear (Waves as a motif)

- Indigo as Memory (it remembers the tension and the folds)


The fibers component:
I would like to make a bojagi screen cloth because

  • of the formal qualities, creating different sections for different video channels of projection
  • something about the seams, about hiding something... about hidden histories and discontinuities in the patchwork and pattern
  • I want to make it very large and long, so if it was hung up it would go onto the floor and start to get scrunched and folded up as if it was reaching to the viewer
  • to continue a fibers tradition from my culture

browse through different bojagi cloths below. images are movable




Things I need to work on and consider:

MEDIA VISUALS

Possibly adding more channels. Splitting things apart. Having them move through different panels.

Yesterday I had a informal critique at home where I showed the video and served some soup. A friend had mentioned how Roosevelt has said

SPEAK SOFTLY WITH A BIG STICK

as a reflection of the US’s policy about starting war under the guise of peace.

Make more channels of text. Rea Tajiri, a professor from fma told me when she was watching it that the words seem like apparitions, they appear and disappear in legibility, struggling to speak.

AUDIO

Current Ideas:

I played it for an audience with this song and I’m kind of obsessed with it now. Music copyright is horrid though. Going to ask for advice.