2021, Badger A’s Invitation, Bucheon Art Bunker MMH hall, Bucheon, Korea
Badger A’s Invitation, 2021, installation, participatory performance
A pandemic has struck the Earth, and humans have been spending two years wearing masks. In this strange situation, everyone is left confused and unable to find a clear way out. How can we live together? It's time to re-question what we thought we knew and let go of what we've been holding on to!
So, if there is something we can do now, it is to listen to the sound of the ground. Participating in that vibration. It is listening to the breathing of the dead. There is a deep and rich resonance between the land and other life forms that connects them. I have never forgotten that they were originally one body.
One day, Mr. Badger A invites us to his den, which is made up of long passages and small rooms. We squeeze through the tiny burrow entrance and dig downward, where we sniff with our noses, dig with our paws, and bear the weight of our backs. I want to hear more clearly the stories that surround the land and my heart, like the dirt clinging to the badger's fur. It takes effort to connect with the land, to close my eyes altogether. Walk barefoot or crouch low and smell the wind in the corners of the field… sniff, sniff… Things around you slide and move. They sway and squeak and leap and scurry away. We enter a dark, sticky, rough, damp world where fear is everywhere, where we find the smell of mountain-goat urine and the faint odor of swamp; the fishy, watery smell of toads; the slimy dung of weasels; the rotting smell of leaves.
Encounters with cave-dwellers through a badger's den and rock walls carved with Buddhist images. Questions generated by this heightened sensitivity. One by one, we revisit the sensations we skipped over. We discover new sensations that we face head-on.
5 paths, 5 rooms
Pitch 1: Tunnel 120-cm-diameter corrugated pipe-1 non-woven fabric; on all fours like a tiger (11 meters long)
Pitch 2: Meadow room (5m x 5m space) 50cm high on all sides
Pitch 3: Puddle room (5m x 6m) (net and inflatable ball floor)
Pitch 4: Side path (11m path) (balloons or tires)
Pitch 5: Low hill path (5m) (artificial crocodile skin floor)
Pitch 6: Scrambling path (5 meters)
Pitch 7: Flat, beanbag (30 meters of space). Flat to lie on. Wang Masato floor, mint pots
Pitch 8: Short tunnel (2.4 meters)
Pitch 9: rock-carved Buddha room (10m x 5m space)
Pitch 10: Tactile map drawing room (5m x 5m space)
Pitch 1: Tunnel 120-cm-diameter corrugated pipe-1 non-woven fabric; on all fours like a tiger (11 meters long)
Pitch 2: Meadow room (5m x 5m space) 50cm high on all sides
Pitch 3: Puddle room (5m x 6m) (net and inflatable ball floor)
Pitch 4: Side path (11m path) (balloons or tires)
Pitch 5: Low hill path (5m) (artificial crocodile skin floor)
Pitch 6: Scrambling path (5 meters)
Pitch 7: Flat, beanbag (30 meters of space). Flat to lie on. Wang Masato floor, mint pots
Pitch 8: Short tunnel (2.4 meters)
Pitch 9: rock-carved Buddha room (10m x 5m space)
Pitch 10: Tactile map drawing room (5m x 5m space)
- Required Participant Preparation
1) All participants wear a harness (seat belt) and helmet.
2) All participants will pass through the quarantine zone.
3) The guide with seil is on the left, and everyone passes their carabiners through the safety belts and starts.
4) There are guides in every room, but you can also hold onto seils that are strung up throughout.
5) There are two emergency exits.
6) There are no more than 6 people at a time.
7) Admission is on the hour. (10:00 AM, 11:00 AM, 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m., 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m.)
8) Tactile map (middle sound) room, place for “middle sound” to contract the pupils in order to go outside
1) All participants wear a harness (seat belt) and helmet.
2) All participants will pass through the quarantine zone.
3) The guide with seil is on the left, and everyone passes their carabiners through the safety belts and starts.
4) There are guides in every room, but you can also hold onto seils that are strung up throughout.
5) There are two emergency exits.
6) There are no more than 6 people at a time.
7) Admission is on the hour. (10:00 AM, 11:00 AM, 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m., 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m.)
8) Tactile map (middle sound) room, place for “middle sound” to contract the pupils in order to go outside
- Face-to-face or virtual roundtable discussions with those who have already performed the work.
- Talking together, awakening the senses, crossing imaginations, reacting to reactions.
- It is not one-way, but rather a process of questioning. It is a process of recording entities with curiosity.
- Try making several sketches (text, drawings).
- Describes things that cannot be fully understood, things that were touched but not fully sensed.
- Overlap their layers.installation, participatory performance
- Talking together, awakening the senses, crossing imaginations, reacting to reactions.
- It is not one-way, but rather a process of questioning. It is a process of recording entities with curiosity.
- Try making several sketches (text, drawings).
- Describes things that cannot be fully understood, things that were touched but not fully sensed.
- Overlap their layers.installation, participatory performance