60 Ho
Single Channel Video Installation, 22:00, 21:9 , Colour, Sound, 2020

60호 
1 채널 비디오설치_22:00_21:9_칼러_사운드_2020










@MMCA Seoul, 2021
@Kang contemporary Berlin 2020
@Taipei, Digital Art Center Taiwan 2020

In the full automatic massage recliner chair, someone lay back inside. It shakes back and forth. And heard loud sounds of women. This sound is recorded at the singing class for the elderly women in the Propaganda Village at the DMZ, South Korea. On the day, the news came out that U.S President Donald Trump warned North Korea and has mentioned “Fire and fury like the world has never seen.” But the elderly woman says “but we sing” 60 Ho deals with the human dichotomy in engaging with the land that we occupy, and the critical responses to them. As a part of it, there are paradoxical situations in propaganda Villages at DMZ, South Korea –It’s a collection of 114 residential units in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea to showcase a better life in the democratic south– the film using it as an example of how humans appropriate the earth to further their own political agendas. And the artist uses by contrast the narration of elderly women as a method of possession of their land, which can not be owned.


Text by Yen Yi Lee