[Work Introduction]
Presented at the 3rd solo exhibition《Ordinary People》(2011), this work is a five-channel video installation constructed through the montage of found footage drawn from more than fifty Eastern and Western films and television dramas.

Each of the five independent screens performs the full spectrum of human emotions in isolation, yet in real time they respond to one another’s ‘sound,’ generating a vast field of interference.
 
[Operating Principle and Intention: Hierarchy and Subversion Through Sound]
The hierarchization of emotion: when each video reaches its climax—roaring in anger or firing a gun—the intensity of its voice determines the hierarchy among the screens. The screen that emits the most powerful sound dominates the space, while those with relatively weaker voices surrender as if raising a ‘white flag.’

A mutable power dynamic: there is no fixed protagonist. According to the volume of the sound being projected, positions of dominance and submission—like power relations in the real world—are ceaselessly reversed and overturned.

A satire of systems: by appropriating the cinematic structure that propels scenes toward moments of extreme climax, the work visualizes the ruthless mechanism of human relations in which individuals constantly interfere with and exert influence over one another.

[Critical Perspective: Lee Jinmyung]
The critic Lee Jinmyung identified the primary target Park Jung Hyuk’s art seeks to dismantle as ‘passive compliance through inaction (passive bias).’ Within a social climate where people uncritically accept the designs of those in power, the artist deconstructs and recombines familiar cinematic images to expose the prejudices and latent violence we have internalized without awareness. This is not mere play; it is a deliberate artistic act (作爲) confronting the invisible forces that move the world.
 
Artist’s Note
“More than fifty fictions (films and dramas) gather to construct a single ruthless reality. On this stage—where, according to the magnitude of sound, some dominate and others submit—‘Ordinary People’ constantly interfere with and overturn one another. Through this war of sounds, I seek to expose the fictionality of the social hierarchies and systems to which we have silently complied.”

[Artist Note]

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.
 
Employing a form of found-footage technique, the five videos collectively reveal a full spectrum of human emotions. Within each one, there comes a moment when the atmosphere reaches a heightened peak: in some sequences, characters erupt in furious screams; in others, guns are fired, or dogs howl into the air. When a particular screen reaches this point of climax, the other screens—whose audio is comparatively weaker—symbolically “raise a white flag,” submitting to the dominant sound.

The hierarchy between images continuously shifts according to the dynamics of each video’s audio. By drawing on the narrative structure of most films and dramas—where everything ultimately exists to build toward a dramatic climax—the work indirectly exposes how relationships in real life also interfere with and influence one another.