[Week 2]

When I received writing a project proposal as an assignment, I was at a stage where I was vaguely coming up with ideas, so I felt hopeless. What I want to say is, how I want to convey it, and what I can learn in the process. It was too difficult for me from start to finish. However, the beginning is half the battle. As soon as I solved the puzzle one by one, the plan began to be completed. First, I had time to redefine my ideas by writing an outline of my work. I developed the paragraph thinking about what the work, the subject of the proposal means to me and what I want it to mean to the audience. After organizing the thoughts like that, I could come up with the details of the work and found a framework for what the content and format of the work would be. In this process, I was able to know how to use the new skills I wanted to learn and express my work using more diverse media. At this point, all I had to do was making a decision about the way to show the work to the audience. The most troubling part was this. Because the message I had seemed to be nothing. Even if it will be delivered effectively, it was uncertain whether it will be able to move the audiences' hearts. But I decided to keep trying. Since it's still just a plan, the workshop or the conversation with the audience could be aimed at any number of times. I still don't know if I can really achieve it this semester. However, by making a concrete plan, the vague idea has been sorted out and quite well-established.

( ) book

안녕, 나는 김이에요. 사실 종이랍니다. 김인 척 해서 미안해요. 난 이제 책이 될 거예요. 영원히 안녕.

4th semester(2019-2)

book(2 size, original and half), displayed in a normal box with transparent color paper

Book, Book, Book exhibition and Hong Kong art book fair

+Color Book

zine, printed on transparent paper(A4 size)

Book, Book, Book exhibition

전자책이 종이책을 대신하는 시대가 왔다. 만약 전자책이 종이책의 자리를 차지한다면, 종이책이 변하지 못할 이유는 무엇인가. 김과 투명종이. 종이책은 "책이라면 이래야 한다"는 규칙을 깨고 상상하지 못했던 모양으로 변화한다.

E-books replace paper books nowadays. If it is true, why cannot paper books change? The dried laver(I will call it Kim from now on) and the transparent paper. Paper books break the "book should be like this" rule and change into an unimaginable shape.

내용은 더욱 책 답지 못하다. 아예 아무런 내용을 담고 있지 않으면서 자신이 책이라고 주장하는 김과 텍스트가 이야기하는 바와 전달되는 바가 전혀 다른 책은 독자로 하여금 여러가지 틀을 의심하거나 깨는 계기로 작용할 것이다. 누가 책의 형태와 내용을 정했으며, 또 누가 색이나 사물의 용도를 정했는가. 답이 뭐든, 우리는 그 '누구'의 속박을 받을 필요가 없다. 우리가 어떻게 생각하고 느끼는지가 중요한 것이다.

The contents are less like normal books. The Kim claims to be a book without any content at all and a book in which the text is completely different from the meaning will serve as an opportunity for the reader to doubt or break various frameworks. Who decided the form and content of the book, and who set the name of the color or the purpose of the object? Whatever the answer is, we don't have to be bound by that 'who'. What matters is how we think and feel.

Living in Public

2nd semester(2018-2)

performance video

3:12

+Brushing my teeth at the playground

performance

공공장소란 무엇이길래, 일상적인 행동을 부끄럽게 만드는 것일까? 보는 눈이 많아서? 그럼 보는 눈은 대체 무엇일까? 다른 사람들의 시선에 나에게 있어 당연한 것을 당연하지 않게 만들고 '이상한 것', '비정상적인 것'으로 만들 권한이 있는 걸까?

What is the 'Public place', which makes everyday behaviors shameful? Too many eyes watching me? Then what are those eyes? Do public eyes have the right to make my normal behaviors 'queer' or 'abnormal'?

공공장소를 무단으로 점령하면서 마주한 시선들이 고왔다면 거짓말이다. 놀이터를 청소하는 경비원은 내게 지금 무엇을 하는 것이냐며 끊임없이 물었고, 학교 마당을 지나치던 학우들이나 교수님들은 빨래를 너는 나를 구경했다. 별 거 아닌 행동을 하는 내가 신기하다는 듯 말이다. 난 왜 이를 닦으면서, 빨래를 널면서 부끄러워했는가.

The gazes I faced while occupying the public place without any permission was not good actually. The guards cleaning the playground constantly asked me what I was doing, and my classmates and professors passing by the schoolyard saw me hang the laundry as if I am a weirdo. Why did I feel so shameful during the performance?

그래야만 했기 때문에? 왜?

Did I need to feel like that? Why?