Confronting Us
Video Installation, Dimensions vary with the installation, eight wood boxes and six stairs, monitors in the boxes, flyers, 2014.
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Confronting Us is an ongoing project that I began when I started posting flyers on the street in 2013. The exhibition("Lossless" at Pittsburgh) consists of two types of installations: a sculptural and theatrical video installation showing interviews of eight selected strangers that followed my flyers and a live projection installation depicting the actual interview scenes. The videos of Confronting Us is organized into the interviews of people following the flyers listening to you and their talks about the relationship between themselves and the others surrounding them. What I interested in during the interviews is the new relationship between them, the others and myself, and absent of my role as an artist who must communicate something to the interviewees. The installation of Confronting Us is also based on this idea. In this exhibition, My psychological approach to the relationship between the individual and the others was represented by the physical movements of the audiences.
Confronting Us is an ongoing project that I began when I started posting flyers on the street in 2013. The exhibition("Lossless" at Pittsburgh) consists of two types of installations: a sculptural and theatrical video installation showing interviews of eight selected strangers that followed my flyers and a live projection installation depicting the actual interview scenes. The videos of Confronting Us is organized into the interviews of people following the flyers listening to you and their talks about the relationship between themselves and the others surrounding them. What I interested in during the interviews is the new relationship between them, the others and myself, and absent of my role as an artist who must communicate something to the interviewees. The installation of Confronting Us is also based on this idea. In this exhibition, My psychological approach to the relationship between the individual and the others was represented by the physical movements of the audiences.
Confronting Us는 2013년도부터 시작된 프로젝트이다.길거리에 “당신의 이야기를 듣는다"는 전단지를 보고 참여한 낯선 사람들은 지극히 개인적인 자신의 이야기들을 털어놓는다. 죽음, 질병, 젠더, 가족 등 다양한 그들의 이야기들은 모두 “주변과의 관계"로 귀결되고, 그들이 이야기하고 싶은 대상은 내가 아닌 그들과 관계된 다른 제3자임을 알게된다. 최근 전시에서 Confronting Us는 작품의 진행 과정에서부터 감상에 이르기까지 작가와 관객 그리고 작품의 역할이 계속해서 순환되는 두 가지 형태의 설치를 보여주었다. 첫번째는 여덟개의 선택된 인터뷰 비디오들을 보여주는 조각적 설치작품, 다른 하나는 인터뷰 과정에서 나타난 관계를 재현하는 라이브프로젝션 설치이다. “관계"에 관한 심리적인 고찰은 위 설치작품들을 관람하는 관객의 움직임의 동선을 통해 환원된다.
Floor Plan of Video Installation