Writings
Statements
Ordinary People
This work, originally presented in Park Jung Hyuk’s third solo exhibition 《Ordinary People》 (August 20–September 30, 2011), consists of five sound-interlinked videos that play in random order. Each video is a dramatized montage created by splicing together scenes from more than fifty Eastern and Western films and television dramas.
2011
Criticisms
A Protest against Silent Inaction
Martin Niemöller, a theologian and Lutheran pastor during World War II, was initially a conservative and rather passive observer of the Nazis. What finally broke his silence and caused him to protest against Hitler was the Nazi persecution of the Christian Church. Niemöller later confessed his deep regrets about not speaking up and thus allowing countless victims to perish in the hands of the Nazis.
2011.08.20
Criticisms
Park Jung Hyuk’s “Living Tentacles (觸手)”
“Living tentacles' concept functions both as a pictorial theme (畵題, subject matter) and as a central agenda (議題, conceptual issue) that runs through Park Jung Hyuk’s work, from his early video pieces such as ‘Training’ and ‘Festival’, presented at his first solo exhibition, to the recent ‘Edge Series’.
2009
Statements
Theater Series-3’ 54”
Theater Series-3’ 54” is a work in which a third-person camera that follows the solitary, resisting gestures of a character dressed as a salaryman (symbolizing a standardized figure produced through discipline and social structures) shifts into a first-person point of view, thereby transforming the observing audience into a confrontational situation with the character and staging a condition in which
2009
Criticisms
IMAGENATION – On the evolution of arts.
From the incantation as a substitute to language, symbol of divine right and royal authority, maid of architecture, the Renaissance Man Leonardo Da Vinci, independence from illusionism, the birth of photography, Andy Warhol’s factory, Nam Jun Park’s video art, Jeff Koons’ scandalism to Damien Hirst’s return to painting
2009
Criticisms
Malocclusion
1. Against a white wall, a domestic camcorder is mounted on a tripod. Through the camcorder’s small screen, we see a person training dogs. The video lightly condenses a training process that unfolded over several months.
2004