Visitor's guidebook from far away

Visitor’s guidebook from far away provides two kinds of experience: Pop-up book exhibition and shadow play.

 

In most modern cities in South Korea, almost every type of residential building is being replaced by new high-rise apartments. The relationship between the lives of modern people and things that have disappeared from this land is becoming more and more distant. Must something old and obsolete always be replaced? From the perspective of ‘a city is the sum of its memories’, in the land of development where we live, everyone has no choice but to become a stranger who needs a guide in the name of MEMORY.

 

Exhibition: A small village made up of several pop-up books is installed on the floor. When the books are closed, they look like a large map of the urban renewal scheme, but when they are all opened, the houses that were on the land before they were demolished appear. During the exhibition, the audience walks around the village and sees the traces of the people who lived in the empty houses.

 

Shadow performance: At the end of the exhibition, a visitor from far away comes to the village and a shadow play begins. He stops and thinks about where all the towns and people have gone and if he can meet them again here. He writes a letter. He asks about those who have left and about the neighbourhood that is about to be buried. Towards the end of his flashback, a shadow of development slowly looms.