/The Guide for a Crash-landing into... : Jade Sujin LEE

The Guide for a Crash-landing into the Camouflaged Planet 변조된 행성으로의 불시착을 위한 가이드
installation, audience participation project
2018

*Exhibition History:
2018 The Future of this Land at Akiyoshidai International Art Village(Yamaguchi, Japan)

*List of works:
A temporary shelter where the Moonlight and sun stay together_bamboo units, silver pipes, marble stone, moss, mixed media_ 2018
Reincarnation of the island_leaves, branches, moss, vinyl, plastic, mesh, hologram vinyl, silver film, wire, beads, mixed media_ 2018
A star bear a thorn for a moment_ wire, plastic ball, thread, mixed media_ 2018
The quiet seasons return into the future_ silver string, newspaper, cellophane, heat insulating mat, plastic strap_ 2018
A memory of coral in the 22nd century_hologram vinyl, wire, plastic ball_ 2018

*Credit
Written & Directed by_ Jade Sujin LEE
Narrator_ Shiota Nozomi
Technical support_ Katsuhiko Akimoto, Shusaku Fukagawa
Cooperation_ Ando Kotaro(Yamaguchi Marble Onix Unio), Kenji Yasushige
Works support_ Satoko Togashi
Photo_ Ohta Michihiro

I picked up bamboo and industrial pipes that had been collected around exhibition space in the central garden where the exhibition took place, and created a space to build a geometric pattern tower or expand it by utilizing organic objects. At the same time, I told the audience a primitive and futuristic time travel story through the headset.

It is known through research of contemporary biologists that biodiversity is not a result of fertility but deficiency. In other words, given that one or two strong species dominate a fertile land, the species that have overcome deficiency in one way or another have occupied a small domain of their own and coexist with one another. On the limestone-based land which is arid, and hot in summer and cold in winter, only the species that have survived a harsh environment can survive – the land not being a good fit with plants which can grow anywhere. The area of limestone is an adversity which is to bear new species for plans.

My project 'The Guide for a Crash-landing into the Camouflaged Planet(2018)' envisions visual elements through curiosity over a future space which has yet to come as well as the pre-historic times. To this end, I show a spatial composition for story-telling of a space by gathering archetypical, archeological and structural elements. This starts with an attempt to transform the present space we live into a virtual land of the 22nd century which has not arrived yet. I have embedded in these spaces with of a nation and a society in the upcoming age, tempo-spatial extinction and the corresponding crisis, driven by various social and environmental issues including technological advancement & food shortage, energy depletion, discrepancies in wealth and population imbalance. Therefore, I research ‘a future space as a space in the far end of the nature with coexistence of ecological ethics and politics.’

Based on this context, I designate the space of Akiyoshidai International Art Village and some spots outside it to conduct a site-specific project combining objects, installation works and sound art for ‘a fluid space with no limit on boundary and time to a space, that is, a single universe with no boundaries of reality and virtuality.’ I install my works in a total of five places by mapping them in a single movement line : the indoor studio I used to use, the public space located at the center of the building, a bamboo forest, a stream bank and a tree on the street. The audience would listen to the sounds of the nature collected in these sites, and the voice files comprised of poetic and narrative stories I created, and experience the works and the place by walking around the building of AIAV and the nature.

The Guide for a Crash-landing into the Camouflaged Planet 변조된 행성으로의 불시착을 위한 가이드
@Akiyoshidai International Art Village(Yamaguchi, Japan, 2018)

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The Guide for a Crash-landing into the Camouflaged Planet installation view, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan, 2018