My smart Identity
Sound (29 audio pieces) :4 speakers with motion sensor detectors, 2022
Despite the fact that there are still many security holes in smartphones, people unquestioningly weave them inextricably into the fabric of their lives. IOS hacking is happening more than you might think. In addition to scams and credit card fraud, national intelligence agencies and Google services used by people around the world are also hacking personal information without difficulty. Anyone can easily become Big Brother. If someone hacks your phone, how much can they find out about you? The memory inside the smartphone holds more information about you than you do and remembers it. The smartphone is always with you, day and night. If a machine has a human identity, isn’t it the identity of the owner of the machine?
Visitors suddenly encounter the voices in the hallway as if the stalker is following and talking to you. And the voice of the main character, Siri, echoes and resonates in your head.
at „Rundgang 2022“ Kunstakademie Münster
at “Pentimenti” Galerie Münsterland e.V.
Dear my stranger
Installation : sound with speaker, transparent paper 90x1000cm, broken glasses, Acrylic Sheets 65x250m, foil text, 2022
This Project revives the concept of ‘the Stranger’ in theorising international relations by discussing how this figure appears and what role it plays in the society of identity. It raises further questions about cultural identities of the diaspora, racial stereotypes and minority group.
Even though we all are in the same space and breathe the same air, the air feels different to someone. Then people treat the someone as strangers. In other words, it can be interpreted that minorities are treated like outcasts in a society created by the majority. How does society define and classify “others”? In the global world emphasizing internationalisation, interest in other cultures is becoming increasingly open now on days. Nevertheless, discrimination against foreigners does not disappear. Why it still happens, and what’s the reason?
Double standards are applied to immigrants, which are Denizenship and Margizenship : as Foreigners are distinguished from economic, sexual discrimination and imperialistically internalised gaze. As a result, different cultures are not perceived as diversity but as superiority and inferiority in society. And it appears in racially identifiable looks.
This work represents the experience to be a stranger as a spatial experience, and it makes the audience think about how people look at others, how they treat others, how they/we/ societies accept other cultures and how people deal with ‘strange encounters’.
Exhibition „Kommen und Gehen“ at Schulstrasse Atelier
Letter to strangers:
The letter on the transparent paper is written based on my personal experience of a long-term abroad settlement. The words are sometimes mixed with aggressive, wounded, fearful, sometimes grieving self-taught or teaching-like tones. It is printed on an 8m-long paper that runs across the entire floor. The length and empty space between words give the feeling of time gap/space. Broken glasses and sound provoke the sensitive social issue of an unstable and insecure environment surrounding strangers in society. At the same time, the ringing “beep” tinnitus in your head will interrupt your reading of the text, annoy your ears, and evokes uncomfortable feelings.
A statement is written in white color on a white wall, so it is hard to see unless audience look closely. While the text installed on the stairs is sometimes emotional and sometimes poetic through personal experiences, the statement written on the wall is a sociological interpretation of how society distinguishes and defines strangers.
open studio Schulstrasse Atelier
Youn Hee Park 