Land, Ghost and the Rumors(2024) — Minji Kim(Unknown Kim)

Title: Land, Ghost and the Rumors(2024)
Place: NOISE Media Art Fair, Turkey
Date: 1/25/2024 - 2/18/2024
Format: Sound Installation with Hosu Lee‘s pencil drawings
Collaborate with Hosu Lee‘s pencil drawings

One city's memory, history, culture, and political layers constantly interact. And sound plays a role as a memory tool, activating it from the depths. <land, ghost, and the rumor> is an immersive sound installation that includes fiction about a ghost surrounded by rumors, which has been wandering around the area of Seoul for a long time (10,000 years).

It is an artistic exploration of urban space through sound, encompassing a critical awareness and attitude towards flat or material interpretations of the city. The city, containing numerous identities, a history of dramatic changes, and geopolitical layers, peeks into this invisible city through the rumors of ghosts that have lived here since ancient times. In this exhibition, Unknown Kim varied her work in collaboration with Hosu Lee’s drawings. Hosu Lee counted objects in the fiction and drew them on paper to stitch the space between fiction and reality, and the spectral and the tangible.

Curating: Jungmin Cho
Co-participating artists: Sima Kim, Youngho Jeong, Yunju Park, Haena Yoo
Location: Fener Evleri 2 & 3, Faith, Istanbul

*Exhibited part of <Flat Land with the Promise> curated by Jungmin Cho
The flat lands, plains, have been a realm of endless exploration. History has evolved through plains: settling and expanding communities, securing the means of production, and growing capital, leading to a source of continuous development. Above all, the plain represents the hope and possibility for the existence of a new world that might appear across from here to there. Also, it is the curiosity and desire to learn about lands with different cultural and social structures. In this sense, the screen is a flat territory on which today’s history is inscribed, occurring and anticipated.

Flat Land with the Promise, the exhibition set in two historical houses on the waterfront of Istanbul where Europe and Asia meet, aims to picture the current sceneries of our ongoing social, natural, and technological civilizations on the screen as a plain. Moreover, it observes the circulation of the screen’s contents back to reality with stereoscopic visual language by screen. This is the time to reconfirm our promise from the pioneering era of the screen, at the land of intersection reached by five Korean artists - Sima Kim, Unknown Kim, Youngho Jeong, Yunju Park and Haena Yoo - on the journey through the vast digital wilderness.