THE SERIES OF UNRESPECTED DEATH Ⅰ
Invitation performance of the exhibition ‘German Arirang 45 Years’
Production: Salad Theater (salad.or.kr)
Concept & Playwriting & Director: Park Kyong Ju (parkkyongju.com)
Date: 29th Jan. 2010
Place: Goethe Institut Seoul Korea
Duration: 20min.
Cast: Jingui Hua, Purev Dashmaa
This performance is for the comrades who died thousands of meters underground in a foreign land where the language, food, and culture were unfamiliar. It is the responsibility of the living to honor the wishes of the dead and ensure that their short lives as migrant workers are not in vain. Only when the living fulfill their responsibility responsibly, history will beautifully record all the miners and migrant workers sent to Germany. This performance is a memorial performance to honor the dead.
The Series of Unrespected Death’ (plan/writing/directing: Park Kyong Ju)’ refocusing on migration and death has dealt with stories of Korean miners dispatched to Germany, foreign migrant workers in the Yeosu Detention Center, one migrant woman who died after international marriage like human trafficking, and ‘refugees’ and ‘people on the margins’. The series that migrant people themselves, not professional actors, have told their stories on the stage will close its theatrical experiment with refocusing on the issue of multiculturalism.
* 제목: 당신은 나를 기억하는가?
* 초연: 독일 아리랑 45년에 묻다 展 (전시 책임 기획: 박경주, 2010)
* 장르: 렉처퍼포먼스
* 길이: 20분
* 기획/극작/연출: 박경주
* 음향: 박경주
* 출연: 김계화, 다시마 프롭
이 퍼포먼스는 언어도 음식도 문화도 낯선 이국 땅 지하 천수십미터 지하에서 숨진 동료들을 위한 것이다. 죽은자들의 뜻을 기리고 이들의 이주노동자로서의 짧은 인생이 헛되지 않도록 하는 것이 산자의 몫이다. 산자들이 그 몫을 책임 있게 다할 때만 역사가 파독광부 이주노동자들 모두를 아름답게 기록할 것이다. 이 퍼포먼스는 바로 죽은자들을 기리기 위한 추모 퍼포먼스이다.
Press release
PARK KYONG JU 