Breathing (Proposition 4) - Ivetta Sunyoung Kang
Ivetta Sunyoung Kang
Breathing will revolve nearby the history of the South Korean guest workers whose labour was exported to West Germany under the cross-national agreement starting in the late 60s. The iteration will include interviews, personal archives and belongings of elderly nurses residing across Germany and their respective acts of storytelling. Who owns their memories? Why didn't some (or most) of their memories become part of the "history"? What ephemeral and subtle bodily enunciations will be enacted when certain memories are summoned to the contemporary act of telling and performing in a reparative mode of speech act? Breathing will consist of many paused, sporadical, yet constant breaths emanating from invisiblized stories to fill archival and epistemological crevices in the leading fabric of the guest worker's history. The artist acknowledges that the Written Resolution is written by the Koreanische Frauengruppe in Deutschland, extracted from <국제여성운동 연대 자료집, 1990> (International Women Solidarity Movement Archive, 1990). The Light of the Factory song used in the video is composed by Minki Kim and used in the play, sharing the same title (Dir. Hyegyung Lee) enacted by the Koreanische Frauengruppe in Deutschland. The recording file was provided by the group from the Koreanische Frauengruppe in Deutschland Archive. I'm Allergic to Archival Dust consists of archival materials from Rhee Youngjun's personal archival library that has been kept by Obok Kwon since his passing in 2020.
