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Contents Windows The bouldless world Writing- The window
Windows ‘Windows-the boundless world’ is about a transparent boundary between the individual and the world. This project started with Ji Yoon’s personal experience of living in a transition period of two different eras. The concept of work is based on the liquidity and the solidity from ‘The liquid modernity’ by Zygmunt Bauman and the critical notion of a transparent boundary in Byungchul Han’s ‘The transparent society’. In the video, through the characteristic of a window that separates inward and outward at a place and the expression of spatial extinction, Ji Yoon narratively pointing out the situation of these days that has ambiguity boundary between the individual and the world.
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Windows | Video ( 01:50”) | 2019
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Windows | Still-cut | 2019
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Filming process | 2019
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Fluidity | UV Print | 420x290mm | 2019
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The boundless wolrd
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Windows-the boundless world | PVC and mixed media | Dimension variable | 2019 8
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Windows-the boundless world | PVC, acrylic board and mixed media | Dimension variable | 2019 10
Windows-the boudless world(detail cut) | 2019
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Windows-the boundless world | Acrylic board and mixed media | 1400x600x600mm | 2019 12
Work in process | 2019
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Work in process | 2019 14
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Idea drawings | 580x215mm | 2019
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Window model | 200x30x50mm | 2019
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Space sketch | 150x100mm | 2019
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Windows drawings (detail cut) | Pen on paper | 1120x7750mm | 2019
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Windows drawings | Pen on paper | 1120x7750mm, 760x560mm, 420x297mm | 2019
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Horizontal scene | Print on photography paper | 1100x450mm | 2019
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Windows process | Paper installation | Dimension variable | 2019 22
Work in process(nocutnews article scraps and notes) | 2019
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The boundary | 9, Jangje-ro 1181beon-gil, Gyeyang-gu, Incheon, Republic of Korea | UV print | 560x370mm | 2019
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The boundary | 9, Jangje-ro 1181beon-gil, Gyeyang-gu, Incheon, Republic of Korea | UV print | 560x370mm | 2019 26
1. Window as a border of era
The window
These days globally nations having a war of speed. Recently Korea has launched 5G as the first in the world. As Korea is in the major group in speed war, a harsh competition is basic here. Because I was born in the ’90s when the mobile start to appear, I have a character of fluidity. However, the character of the era I had lived in youth was the opposite. In 1950 -1953, Korea has made the miracle on the Han River. Since that time, Korea has been focusing on economic efficiency and labour productivity. The character of the era was very stiff, quick and comparison. This character still remains in society. According to the policy of the ministry of education in the ‘90s, students had to be in school until class ends, which was 8 am to 11 pm. After school ends, students took another study academies class or study with a personal tutor at home as their parents designed. So we loved window seats. The window scene made us dream about space that free and fluid from where we adhered on a square desk in a square concrete place.
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When I was younger, at school window I sensed the border between two differ-
By the effect of losing weight and boundary, we can not guess where is a termi-
ent spaces. The first place: school, shows the remain characters of the past solid
nal. It is just a constant race. And in this endless marathon, if you stop or pause, it
modern society. This place was mass, heavy, lined up and solid. On the contrary
comes to all your responsibility to take. Because you choose to do it. In this era, all
to the solid place, a scene through the window shown the fluid modernity that is free and liquid. As a symbol and a metaphor, the window is me who lived a border of the era.
the responsibilities are assumed by individuals at this time. In result, we trapped in self-censorship, self-blame, and endless agony states. Because we can not blame this liberalism. Paradoxically, we fear to stop, scare to land to the ground in a free and fluid world. The revolution affects our life. We are living in a world where we can’t lower our
2. Window as a border of speed
guard every day. And in this time of era, liquidity of itself to adjust in fast speed world is a necessity. Before, the torrent speed was in a concrete place. But now it expanded to outward infinitely. And the only boundary we can sense is between us and the
As the window was the existence of a border between two different places, the speed was also different. The solidity I felt in youth was made from a density of high competitive speed. Compare to the artificial speed in the first place, in the second place where I spent time to stare through the window, the speed was slow. Moving clouds, wind, various colours in the sky by time passed, gave other sense of speed. As the 4th industrial revolution arrived at our era the speed of world got faster and spread. In a solid modern time, we had a boundary that we can compare places. But in the contemporary era, it’s not easy to sense boundary. Because everything is connected and never pauses.
world. So metaphorically the window is us as a border of speed. We observe the world through our own window. And we have to decide a place and make a choice to follow the speed of the world or the speed of our own pace. Manage my own speed is also one of the risks that I have to take in this fast speed world. Albert Camus wrote people are suffering because of the fact that they can not own this world as much as they want. Still, it is true that we are suffering from the fact that we can not own the pace of the world. Most of people in the world following the speed of world and try to catch the speed and achieve it. But we need to consider the other side of the window, our inward, where it has different speed. Because, at the window as a border of different speed, it reminds we are a free existence in
“(…) We were departed but it may not terminate.” - ‘Liquid modernity’ by Zygmunt Bauman
the universe like a star and gives a realization of independency that we dreamed in a former time. As a fluid person, I want to convey a fluidity doesn’t always mean a torrent movement. I am tired of the blind fast speed. I rather prefer to be down stream than the
As we lost boundary, we placed in an endless marathon. People wished to free
upper stream. Everything in the world always tries to make a balance. We are facing
from the pyramid society where consume one as a consumable supply in former
fluid modernity. In the past solid modern, we aimed to break the boundary and to be
times. But surprisedly, nowadays by the consumerism of these days, we consume
flexible. Now, we are fluid and flexible. What shall we need to do to make a balance
itself.
in our world?
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