Grey Belt

Dear world.
Taeyoon and Cheon pyo are making a new collaborative project. We are showing kinetic sculptures and drawing with a story, combined as a work in progress performance piece ‘Grey belt’. Please come see us at EYEBEAM, mixer in March 3~6th, in New York City. Here are some excerpts of the text and working images. Our performance will be around 11 pm. The party goes til 2AM. Please RSVP http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/mixer/mixer_0309.html

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If you were to ask ‘What is this story about?’, I will say it is ‘not about the plaza, or the chamber, nor the alley way, but the waste land.’ Someone next to me say, ‘No no no it’s the stories of the humid and secret jungle.’ Another person will say without hesitance ‘Hey, you all got it wrong. This is about the funny green house, perfectly climate controlled and fertilized, but full of plastic tree.’

Another group of folks started whispering. ‘I will tell you why gravity disappeared from the grey belt’. Ah ha! So, this is about the zero gravity place where people fly around? Another person said with sarcasm, ‘No, They are actually projectile war heads that do not know its destination and purpose of the travel.’ Another person, looking at the other two rather pathetically, said ‘The falling things do not have wings to fly back up.’

Looking at the mirror and fixing her makeup, said ‘I got my skin peeled off, It’s still burned red.’ She is slowly stuffing herself into taxidermy. Are you mummifying yourself to stay beautiful forever? <The one who wishes eternal life and beauty dives into the pool of formalin> Is your skin, flesh, body desiring the same dream? The question continues to the issues of scar. Wrapping on the scar so many times and putting medicine, until you forget about it. Is it fixed now?

The turtle was taking a walk, and said, waiting is a painful torture. ‘He forgot about the appointment. Or, did he know, but purposefully erased the memory?’ Another person is waiting at the promised location. The landmine that was never activated, is it still waiting for him? It’s time is still ticking.

Finishing off for now. In the grey belt, the place where gravity disappeared, can one see more clearly into the distance? Or is the view perplexed? Is it because of the grey sunshine, or the monochrome air?

This work is inspired by the situation between South and North Korea, and rest of the world. Although the work is not meant as an explicit comment on a specific issue, we hope to express our understanding of origin and the complexity of the conflict.