O dust

O dust, 2023, video still
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O dust, 3 channel installation, video documentation, the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, 2023
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3 channel installation view, 2023, the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale
O dust
2023
7 mins 27 seconds, with sound, Korean, English, French, single-channel; three-channel for installation
O dust uncovers intimate reflections on language, memory, and the intangible through decentering the Eurocentric translation and historiography of cultural inheritance. Filmed at the Intangible Heritage archives and conference rooms of UNESCO headquarters in Paris, FR - where the world's heritages are institutionalized through English and French only - from such site, Chun makes an intimate speech – an abstract letter to her late grandmother, who was an unhistoricized Korean folk dancer. The film speaks through layers of linguistic and visual ruptures that evade the historic, bureaucratic narrative; it speaks through the gaps. The non-linear film oscillates between various forms of storytelling: an abstract letter, an imaginary multilingual folklore, and moving image poetry. O dust summons the untranslatable and the intangible to meditate on inherited lyrics and their afterlife -- on what continues to get carried across tongues, place, and time.