Mixed Installation art and performative work, 2019

Title: 2018 Criminal Trial

Genre: Mixed installation and performance

Material: Mixed installation with 21 photo frames, 1 single channel video, 1 headphone, 1 monitor, 4 document files, 5 books, 2 shelves, 1 chair, 1 police uniform, 1 actor, etc.

Year of Production: 2019

Performance Length: 10min.

Director & : Park Kyong Ju

Playwright: Park Kyong Ju

Performer: Kim Ok lan

Exhibition: Exhibited work from the solo exhibition ‘ 26 Day archeology’ @SeMA Storage, Seoul, 2019

Context: An actress dressed as a police officer explains the process and results of the Lan’s diary project to the audience while displaying the materials of the project that the artist carried out from 2008 to 2019 in frames and files. During the exhibition, the actress performed regularly.

From left to right in the top row of the picture

1. 2018 Criminal Trial If the diary is a human being, video still image from document video

2. 2018 Criminal Trial, Photo by Suk Sung Suk

3. 2018 Criminal Trial, Photo by Park Kyong Ju

4. 2018 Criminal Trial If the diary is a human being, video still image from document video

Copyright of all images Ⓒ Park Kyong Ju

제목: 2018 형제

분야: 혼합 설치 및 퍼포먼스

재료l: 사진 및 서류 액자 총 22개, 서류 파일 2개, 희곡집 10권, 배우 1명

제작년도: 2019

퍼포먼스 길이: 10분

감독 & 저자: 박경주

배우: 김옥란

전시: 박경주 개인전 (세마 창고)

작품 소개: 경찰 복장을 한 배우가 작가가 2008년부터 2019년까지 박경주 작가가 진행한 란의 일기 프로젝트의 자료들을 액자와 파일로 전시하면서 란의 일기 프로젝트의 과정과 결과를 관객들에게 설명하고 있다. 전시 기간 동안 배우는 상시적으로 공연을 펼친다.

Copyright of all imagesⒸ Park Kyong Ju

Excerpts from the performance script

Park Kyong Ju intentionally cast a Korean-Chinese migrant woman as a police officer. Author Park asked the actress to rewrite her script with Chinese accents and sentences. The last letter of the actress’s name is also ‘Lan’.

Ⓒ Park Kyong Ju

Female police officer, pick up the file folder. Then, in the file folder, she unfolds the documents of the prosecution’s face-to-face investigation of Park Kyong Ju and shows them to the audience.

Female cop: Film director Park Kyong Ju has filed a criminal complaint, acting as an agent for her late mother. If you look at these related documents here, can you see the power of attorney written by the deceased’s mother for Park Kyong Ju? Looking at this content, it is said that Park Kyong Ju had a question in the process of researching Ran’s notepad diary in the spring of 2016. So the director Park is said to have visited her mother in Vietnam to check the original diary. At that time, the mother of the deceased asked for the cause of her daughter’s death, and after returning to Korea, director Park looked for a lawyer to handle the case, but was unable to find one. So director Park became the attorney for the lawsuit herself.

The Female cop put down the file and pointed to the power of attorney in one of the frames on the wall of the exhibition hall.