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Artist Introduction
Im Heung Soon is an artist and filmmaker based in Seoul and Jeju Island. His work explores the lives of people who are marginalized in social, political, capitalist and national contexts through different visual mediums such as photography, installations and cinema. He has also directed several feature films such as Factory Complex (2014/2015), Reborn (2017) and Things that Do Us Part (2018). Recently, his works have been exhibited at Sharjah Biennale (2015), MoMA PS1, the National Art Center Tokyo, Tate Modern, Lincoln Center and Pompidou Centre among others. In 2015, his work Factory Complex was awarded with the Silver Lion at the 56th Venice Biennale.
Performance Detail
Brothers Peak is a mountaintop at the foot of Mt. Bukhansan. The artist frequently climbs it and while hiking he could not but think about the past and present of both Koreas and the suddenly changing international situation with the inter-Korean and US-North summit.
The Gaeseong Industrial Complex had become a space where trust in each other and peace was built. The sudden closure of the complex and the withdrawal of companies had not only been a low point in inter-Korean relations but also a great disappointment for entrepreneurs and workers on both sides and the people in the North. Especially the entrepreneurs in the South saw all their efforts and sacrifices collapse. Although some of them could survive through production abroad, the majority is desperately hoping for the reopening of the GIC.
On November 23, 2016, nine months after the closure of the GIC, entrepreneurs staged a funeral ceremony in front of the National Assembly. The performance expressed their hope that the operations of the GIC will be normalized again to resume inter-Korean economic cooperation. This work shows how the con and other objects used in this funeral ceremony are carried up to Brothers Peak. Although time, space and the setting are different, repeating this funeral ceremony in reality also revives it as a form of art. Now it expresses support for the fate of those entrepreneurs that suffered through the closure of the GIC and the workers that had been deployed to the complex asking the audience to join.
This work of art was made together with an accordion player Lee Hyang from North Korea and the gay choir G_Voice from South Korea.
*Photo copyright : IM Heung-soon
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