Installation view @ Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
'다음을 듣고 따라하시오' 전시는 제주어를 중심 소재로 한다. 한국어를 단일어라 여기던 표준 한국어 사용자인 관찰자인 ‘내’가 ‘한국어’인 ‘제주 사투리’ 받아쓰기를 시도하지만, 전혀 알아듣지 못하는 영상, 해녀라는 직종이 사라지듯이 제주어 역시 사라지거나 박제화 되는 것을 해녀들의 노동요와 사라지는 사람들 사라지는 목소리로 구성하여, 이를 통해 우리가 굳건히 믿었던 것에 균열을 꾀한다.
'You Will Have to Follow the Directions You Hear' is an exhibition centered on the Jeju language. In the work 'Korean Dictation Test: You Will Have to Answer Questions What You Hear', the observing "I"—a speaker of standard Korean who has long regarded Korean as a singular language—attempts to dictate spoken Jeju. Although Jeju is often treated merely as a "dialect," the narrator quickly realizes it is entirely unintelligible to them.
Meanwhile, 'The Perfect Harmony' shows that the Jeju language, much like the traditional profession of the haenyeo (Korean female divers), is gradually disappearing and becoming fossilized. The work interweaves the divers' labor songs with images of vanishing people and fading voices. Through these explorations, the exhibition opens a rift in the certainties we have long taken for granted.
