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- Title
- Title The Ordinary Day
- Year
- 2020
- Note
- Head, 2020, color, silent, 6min 34sec (17-inch LCD monitor)
Legs, 2020, color, silent, 17min 55sec (43-inch LED monitor)
- Material
- 2-채널 비디오, 컬러, 무성, 17인치 LCD모니터, 43인치 LED모니터
2-channel video, color, silent, 17-inch LCD monitor, 43-inch LED monitor
- Description
- Seungwon Park’s The Ordinary Day is a two-channel video installation. On two monitors, he shows two videos of a head shaking from side to side and the legs lifted while lying down. However, the legs raised toward the sky are displayed like standing on the ground. The contrast between the nude monitor, whose circuit board came out, showing the head hanging upside down, and the black monitor showing the trembling legs, visualizes turmoil and silence. The head and legs are very ordinary body parts displayed on the monitors separately while showing irregular movements. It resonates with our body and creates an uncomfortable sensation somehow.
The artist got a motif for this work from Nam June Paik’s performance video Head and Foot. In the video, Paik continues to shake his uncomfortable limbs and head to wake up the body. Seungwon Park also shows the body trapped in the monitor and the sensing body at the boundary between life and death through an effort to break out of the frame. The sense of reality on the monitor encountered in a small space is felt as a humanized mechanical sculptures. Under the title of The Ordinary Day, the artist says that recognizing the body on the border between the death drive and the will to live is an ordinary practice of life.
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