The frame moves._It divides into a road for cars and a road for pedestrians._The flowing tree and the flowing walls. The tree creates a wind path along the waterway and the pedestrian path._Between the paths, Nanjido Mound is visible._The waterway runs windingly._The place where water merges forms a swamp._ The waterway passes through Nanjido, the highlands and then ascends to the entrance of a valley and a pier._The Nanjicheon stream flows and stirs up the riverside of the Hangang River.

consists of experimental resultants acquired from the observation and re-interpretation of various geographical and physical phenomena of Nanjido, which is a garbage landfill that was transformed into a park transformed.

Nanjido is a park formed from a waste dumpsite, and it shows various contrasting duality, such as tangible space from intangible space; a newly created space from a deserted space; an operating space from an ignored space; an industrial energy-generated space from a waste-accumulated space; and a breathing space, where the natural ecosystem is regenerated from contaminated materials. The soil, stones, and trees collected from Nanjido have their own distinct scent. In particular, various scents emitted from each area – plants blowing from the mound, gas odors leaking from underground, and burning from one corner of a garbage incineration plant – will all help people imagine the structure of Nanjido.

The surrounding scenery of Nanjido is so beautiful that it deludes people into believing that they are outside Seoul. At the rest place created on the garbage dump, which has extreme contrasting duality, such diversity and characteristics imply several things if we concentrate on small sounds that we can experience. The sounds of winds, birds, insects, electric poles, power plants, and automobiles, which we can easily hear on the surface of the landfill, as well as the sounds of vibration and wavelengths, which are generated from physiological and chemical reactions happening inside waste dumps below the surface of ground, help people associate the present structural frame of Nanjido with its past.

The primary attempt of is to express physiological and chemical reactions, which are generated by wavelengths, vibrations, frictions, gas, and leachate from the surface of upper structures, into exhibition spaces by turning them into sounds through electronic devices. With various sounds collected from the Nanjido site, an attempt is made to re-interpret the ironical, historical duality and structural irrationality of the lower structure 'waste dump' and the characteristics of the upper structure of the surface, which works as a park, from the perspective of our society’s widespread phenomenon of cover-up.

To remind people of the upper surface and lower structures at the exhibition space, the sounds from physiological and chemical reactions are delivered through speakers, and vibrations and sounds are expressed in an overlapping mode by using soil as a medium, which symbolizes the surface of the ground. In addition, the images of Nanjido village, which were accidently captured by the artist during the early winter of 1996, help people recall Nanjido, which used to be a garbage landfill and a historical space, which was isolated from society in the past. They also derive people's interest in Nanjido as a space of possibility and value when the sounds onsite are juxtaposed.
- KIM Joon

Artists: Joon Kim, Sungsuk Suk

*image (left)
live Film - Instant 108-1, 2013
live + web streaming + visual performance film
Live Digital film, three channel screening with stereo, 15 min
© Sungsuk Suk 

Courtesy of SeMa Nanji Studio