Macondo
09:47, VR Video, 2020The background of “Macondo”* is the Korea National University of Arts' School of Visual Arts (Imun-dong, Seoul, S.Korea), which was previously the building that housed the Central Intelligence Agency/Agency for National Security Planning (now the National Intelligence Service) during the dictatorship. This building, currently serving as a living space for students, was once a site where someone was tortured. The virtual space, created using 3D spatial data of the building, is a site layered with various voices related to its history. It resonates with adapted testimonies and interviews of those who were tortured by state power during the dictatorship, including the Central Intelligence Agency office in Imun-dong, as well as whispers reciting the final passages of Gabriel García Márquez's novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”(1967).
* “Macondo” is an imaginary village presented as the background of the Nobel Prize-winning novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez. In the novel, "Macondo” represents a place where the history of the Latin American continent, which was dominated by the West, is condensed and sublimated.
photo credit: Artist
Production Support: K’ARTS Art Collider Lab
@ ‘Scale, Scanning’, Seongbuk Museum of Art, Seoul, S.Korea, 2020