Mixed Installation and performative work, 2019

Title: If the diary is human being

Genre: Mixed installation and performance

Material: Performance and mixed installation with 2 performers, 1 monitor, 1 single channel video, 3 ropes, mountain equipment, 2 sets of southern Vietnamese costumes, 7 colored small flags, etc., 2019

Year of Production: 2019

Performance Length: 3 hours (permanent performance for 3 hours every day in the exhibition hall), 60-minute performance once a week in case of performance with audience participation

Director : Park Kyong Ju

Playwright: Park Kyong Ju

Performer: Park Kyong Ju (permanent performance), Lorna de Mateo (permanent performance), Kim Ok Lan(Performance with Audience Participation), Kim Seha (Performance with Audience Participation), Urna Urancimek (Performance with Audience Participation), Hill Hezon (Performance with Audience Participation), Nicky France (Performance with Audience Participation), Yongmin (Performance with Audience Participation), Gleiza Balvezma (Performance with Audience Participation)

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

Context: Two performers take a page from the diary and perform performatively suspended in the air in the exhibition hall. For three hours, they hang in the air, do not come down, and show scenes symbolizing pages 16 and 9 of the diary without dialogue. In the single-channel video, Vietnamese words symbolizing the truth of the incident are repeatedly performed. In the case of a performance with audience participation, the audience is given the role of a diary page on the spot and must participate in the performance.

From left to right in the top row of the picture

1. If the diary is a human being, Photo by Suk Sung Suk

2. If the diary is a human being, video still image from document video

3. If the diary is a human being, Photo by Park Kyong Ju

4. If the diary is a human being, Photo by Park Kyong Ju

5. If the diary is a human being, video still image from document video

6. If the diary is a human being, video still image from document video

7. If the diary is a human being, Photo by Park Kyong Ju

8. ~ 9. If the diary is a human being, video still image from document video

10. If the diary is a human being, Photo by Park Kyong Ju

Copyright of all images Ⓒ Park Kyong Ju

제목: 만약 일기가 사람이라면

분야: 혼합 설치 및 퍼포먼스

재료: 로프, 단일 채널 비디오 모니터, 7개의 색기, 2명의 연주자, 2개의 베트남 의상

제작년도: 2019

퍼포먼스 길이: 3시간(전시장에서 매일 3시간씩 상시 퍼포먼스), 관객참여 퍼포먼스의 경우 주 1회 60분 공연

감독 & 저자: 박경주

퍼포머: 박경주(상시 퍼포먼스), 로나 드 마테오 (상시 퍼포먼스), 김옥란(관객참여 퍼포먼스), 김세하(관객참여 퍼포먼스), 우르나 우란치메크(관객참여 퍼포먼스), 힐 히존(관객참여 퍼포먼스), 닉키 프랑스(관객참여 퍼포먼스), 용민(관객참여 퍼포먼스), 글라이자 발베즈마(관객참여 퍼포먼스)

전시: 박경주 개인전 ’26일의 고고학’ 전시 (세마 창고)

작품 소개: 두 명의 퍼포머가 일기의 한 페이지를 맡아 전시장에서 공중에 매달려 수행성 공연을 한다. 3시간 동안 그들은 공중에 매달려 내려 오지 않고 대화도 없이 일기 16페이지와 9페이를 상징화한 장면을 보여준다. 싱글 채널 비디오에선 사건의 진실을 상징하는 베트남어 단어가 반복 상영된다. 관객 참여 공연의 경우 관람객들은 즉석에서 일기 페이지의 역할을 부여받아 공연에 참여하여야 한다.