Project Dialogue _Archive (2009)
 

 

Many people in Korea tend to be aware of the way other people are looking at one, to respect honor, and to have strong group consciousness. Also they tend to have dream, future and tendency formed by the social needs, rather have and carry forward thinking of themselves own. For this reason, they are turned-on and bound by competition. They forget the first happiness and dream and have the same dream to keep their life covered with being conscious of the eyes of others. What makes them have the obsession about progress and development?
 

The problem was found at what they lost in their life. I believed there is a way to future where they should to head for in the found. I wondered since when people close their heart.
This was the beginning of Project Dialogue in 2009. First, I made a dialogues book from overhearing in a public place in Seoul. I send it various 50 persons whose different jobs and generations and made them take one dialogue and continue the dialogue in their ways. For instance, a psychiatrist continued the dialogue by medical reference, a radio DJ recommended a song, a poet wrote a wise saying and a fortuneteller send me back an amulet. I exhibited many people's different dialogues at Dialogue Archive, and the viewers continued the dialogues in their ways.

 

 

Project 대화 (2009)

한국은 타인을 의식하고, 체면을 중시하며 집단의식이 강한 사회이다. 스스로의 생각을 이야기하고 추진하긴 보단 자신이 속해있는 집단의 요구에 맞추어 개인의 꿈과 미래 그리고 성향을 만들어간다. 때문에 지나치게 유행에 민감하며 경쟁에 얽매인다. 타인에게 보이기 위한 삶을 유지하느라 정작 개인의 행복과 꿈은 가장 먼저 버리고 모두가 같은 꿈을 갖고 살아간다. 우리는 어떤 삶을 살기 위해 이토록 진보와 발전에 급급한 걸까?

 

 나는 이러한 문제를 ‘삶에서 잃어버린 것’에서 찾고자 했는데, 그것은 과거 안에 사람들이 나아가야할 미래에 대한 길이 있다고 믿기 때문이다. 그리고 자연스러운 질문이 생겨났다. "사람들은 언제부터 자신의 속마음을 이야기하지 않게 된 걸까?" 이렇게 Project Dialogue(2009)는 시작됐다.

 

먼저 서울시내 공공장소에서 엿들은 일상대화로 대화집을 만들어 직업과 연령이 모두 다른 50명에게 보내 한 대화를 선택해 자신만의 방식으로 이어나가 달라고 부탁했다. 정신과의사는 소견서로, 라디오DJ는 추천곡으로, 시인은 명언으로, 점쟁이는 부적을 보내왔다. 다양하게 모은 사람들의 이야기를 가지고 Dialogue Archive 전시에 소개했고, 관객들은 이들의 답변에 대화를 이어나갔다.

 

 

 

<Dialogue> 프로젝트는 ‘왜 사람들은 진심을 이야기하지 않을까’ 라는 삶의 궁금증에서 시작됐다. 우리 사회는 자신의 진심을 내보이지 않으면서 타인이 그를 몰라주면 서운해 한다. 그러면서 당사자가 아닌 다른 이에게 고민을 이야기하고 위로를 받으며 그 사람으로부터는 멀어진다. 이 작업은 서울시내 공공장소에서 수집한 사람들의 일상적인 대화를 주재료로 삼고 있다. 

For me, drawing chronicles all the processes involved in embodying my ideas. My work is based on concepts open to directions, with countless possibilities. It always begins from questions about trivial life. When I use a poem, music, or film, my art and my sensibilities become enriched, and specified through studying materials, finally achieved when questioned. Diverse ideas at times coexist and develop in another direction, as if life changes according to the people we meet. Although we make countless plans, nobody knows what will happen tomorrow. My life is the exploration of what I am wondering, and my drawing is the chronicle of the processes involved. If these processes record what I imagine, worry about, and realize, I am not a creator, but a chronicler, a collector. 

This dialogue project begins from the question “Why don’t people speak the truth?” When we reveal our true heart, we expect others to understand us, otherwise we feel sad. This project’s primary material is daily conversation, collected from public spaces within Seoul. The protagonists in these dialogues are you and I. Even though our life consists of common stories, banal conclusions, and the people we meet everyday, it can become different through a fresh view, or a unique question. So I ask 50 people of diverse occupation to engage in extremely general, ordinary, even lighthearted conversation. They offer stories that, through their processing, become narratives of great significance. Their replies leave me looking at the world from a different perspective, realizing a wide variety of people live in this world. 

I don’t want to make my work talk alone. I also don’t want to speak the same story in the same format. I wish for new meaning that can be formed anew in relations with other people. Just as all living creatures undergo a metamorphoses when their surroundings change, a work of art, I think, changes according to its surrounding space and people. These are not bystanders, but crucial beings, bringing form to Park’s work. Her work is the result of encounters with them.
 

 

벽이야기 _ 벽위에 설문조사 한 글씨_ 2009

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Project Dialogue(2009)