2023韩国短片
In Greek mythology, Procrustes was a bandit who killed people by stretching them or cutting off their legs to force them to fit the size of his bed. The word, 'Procrustean bed' means the arbitrary behavior of imposing others to change their way of thinking by your standard or a violent situation that does not bend his argument. In this work, I set up the video screen as a kind of "Procrustean bed", and try to consider the contradictory aspect of "living in Korean society”. Although about 4.5 percent of the total Korean population, more than 2 million foreigners, live together for various purposes and reasons, discrimination and hatred due to race, ethnicity, and the background of the country of origin are prevalent in Korean society. It sheds light on the names of various statuses such as refugees, foreign workers, and compatriots, which have changed and been eliminated by the framework of Korean society. By referring to the questions presented in the Korean naturalization interview, I bring up the issue of the gap between reality and fiction of "becoming a Korean citizen". Are these questions on the screen the right of way to enter the 'promised land'? Is it only possible to answer if you wear a new word and erase your name? Can we sing "the right to have rights" beyond rigid boundaries? This project shares a common theme with previous works A Wise Answer to a Silly Question(2012) and Whispering Molecules(2022), and I attempt to read against the grain of the conventional text and re-write it to lead to another question.