CONTINUUM, excerpt
projection mapping installatiopn, total 12 min, sound,
Commissioned by Ilmin Museum of Art, 2019
documentation filmed by Jangho Kim, edited by Yiyun Kang
Continuum explores the notion of history. History is the sociopolitical, cultural, physical, mental, material and spiritual processes of action and reaction. As we see from Britain’s joining to the EU in 1973 to the current Brexit chaos, from the French Revolution in 1789 to the Yellow Vests Movement in 2018, from Korean’s March 1st movement in 1919 to the Candlelight Revolution in 2016-17, history is the entanglement of action, counteraction, narrative, counter-narrative, and reflection. Then, in the context of today’s era of computation, has the notion of history been reconfigured, altered or remained the same? What would be the most significant quality that will still sit at the heart of our history?
These questions engendered Continuum.
It is incredibly easy to overlook how profoundly the world has changed over the last couple of decades with digital technologies. Kitchin and Dodge (2011) examined that our daily spaces are increasingly dependent on code, and thus computation creates new spatialities in our everyday life, turning the space into code/space. As such, computation is extensively and intimately woven into the fabric of our lives. Then have we really become ‘smarter’ than before with all these ‘smart’ aids of computer? With automation, data collection, pervasive computing, IoT technologies, we are actually losing our agencies ever than before and will increasingly lose it at the speed of light that runs through the fibre-optic cable if we would not recognize that our life is intensely shaped by the co-constitutive relationship between human, machine, and software.
Continuum captures our history that is no longer fully comprehensible with linear temporality alone as it folds and unfolds by continuously expanding its spatio-temporal dimensions. In so doing, data and algorithm will be at the centre of the system, underpinning how history was and continue to be written. Therefore, it is hugely important for us not to be trapped in the computational, algorithmic abyss and to critically weave our history in this profoundly transitional time.
CONTINUUM is exhibited
in the <Immortality on the Cloud>,
Ilmin Musuem of Art, Seoul, Korea
CONTINUUM
projetion installation, 12 min, sound, 2019
Comissioned by Ilmin Museum of Art
Moving Image / Sound Design: Yiyun Kang
Documentation credit:
filmed by Jangho Kim
edited by Yiyun Kang
Performance part credit:
Choreography Chang Ho Shin
Stage design Taeyang Lee
Camera/Light Hanhee Cho
Performers
Hyung Gyu Choi/ Min Seon Choi/ Heewon Jeon/ Hyukjun Jeoung/ Ui Heon Jeoung/ Kwan Young Jo/ Do Hun Kim/ Junseok Lee/ Ye Chan Lee/ Yun Ju Lee/ Jeong Un Na/ Seol Yoon Park/So Eon Park
Staff
Stage design Tae-hee Lee / Seung-hwan Kim
Camera/Light Yeonsoo Kim/ Youngduk Kim
CONTINUUM. Slide show
CONTINUUM
documentation filmed by Jangho Kim, edited by Yiyun Kang
CONTINUUM
documentation filmed by Jangho Kim, edited by Yiyun Kang
CONTINUUM
documentation filmed by Jangho Kim, edited by Yiyun Kang
CONTINUUM
documentation filmed by Jangho Kim, edited by Yiyun Kang