Dangerous Supplement 2006
Dangerous Supplement 2006
MINI DV/SUPER 8 FILM TRANSFERRED TO DVCAM, 4:3, BLACK AND WHITE AND COLOUR, STEREO, 14 MINUTES, US/KOREA, ENGLISH (ENGLISH SUBTITLES) / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: COURTESY THE ARTIST
Much of Yoo’s footage is found and retrieved and then reworked and re-presented. ISAHN was created by filming through the viewing hole of stereoscopic devices South Korea, near the border to North Korea, so that exiled people from the North might see these places again in 3D. Yoo’s narration, based on a suicide note, creates a moving insight into the experience of exile. In Dangerous Supplement Yoo retrieves Korean War archival footage found at the US National Archives, which depicts beautiful though fragmentary images – often from the air – of Korean life. These images were created out of a ‘murderous intent’ to educate soldiers about a foreign place. The artist’s own footage of Panmunjom, the site on which the Korean War Armistice Agreement was signed on 27 July 1953, is interspersed. Text excerpts from Kafka’s Description of a Struggle and Samuel Beckett’s Fizzle 6 are excerpted and melded by Yoo to create a new poem, one that speaks of a harsh mountain revealing the unobtainable by its presence.
Contact: Wed 7 Oct 12.30pm (with Measures of Distance + On Three Posters), Wed 21 Oct 12.30pm (with Straight 8 + My First Film + Drifter + Birth of the Seanema) and Sat 7 Nov 3.00pm (with ISAHN + Ssitkim: Talking to the Dead) / Cinema A
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