Writings
Texts
The Temperature of the Senses
Artists create for many different reasons. Some work in order to convey a clearly defined message; others simply because they have something they want to say. Still others create because they feel a more ambiguous but equally compelling need—to draw, to make, to release something that must be let out.
2018
Statements
Seven Vertices
Seven Vertices is a work that was exhibited in the group show 《Faces We Want to See》 at the Lee Han-yeol Memorial Hall (October 7–November 30, 2015). The exhibition selected six individuals who had been sacrificed during the process of democratization or in popular struggles for livelihood, paired each with one of six artists, and presented their lives through each artist’s distinct mode of expression.
2015.10.07
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