○ Sungyong Park: This is the time for “Gyeong Gi Culture,” <Tell Me~ GGC>, to quickly deliver the cultural news of Gyeonggi Province. We are together every Friday. Let's meet Reporter Park full of bright energy. Hello. Reporter Park!

▶ Suyoung Park: Hello. This is Suyoung Park, a ‘Culture News Messenger’ that quickly delivers cultural news such as various exhibitions and performances in Gyeonggi-do.

○ Sungyong Park: You said you went away this time?

▶ Suyoung Park: That's right. I went to Heyri village in Paju last weekend. I visited the large art museum ‘White Block', which has 6 exhibition rooms on the 1st basement and 3rd floors above the ground.

○ Sungyong Park: There was such an art museum in Heyri Village?

▶ Suyoung Park: I also went to Heyri several times, but I didn't know it because it was so spacious. Since its opening in 2011, it has been taking the lead in promoting the popularization of art and revitalization of the art market through seminars and various educational programs. Here, until the 21st of next month, the special exhibition ‘The Black Sea’ will be held.

○ Sungyong Park: Not ‘red sun' but ‘black year'? I'm curious from the title of the exhibition.

▶ Suyoung Park: What you just said is stereotypes. The reason why they named it ‘black year' rather than ‘red sun'! I will listen closely to Kang Song, the curator's director, about what this exhibition intends to say.

▲ Art Center White Block, interior view

[Interview/ Sung Song Kang, Head of Curator]

“When we draw, the sun is usually painted red. One day, my daughter photographed the sun with Polaroid. But it came out in black as if explaining an eclipse on Polaroid. Even though I saw it, I guess I couldn't get rid of the idea that the sun is red. I think I always painted the sun red when I was drawing, but I thought that once my thoughts or ideas were made, it was not easy to change, and in order to adhere to them, it seemed that the situation would be ignoring the truth or other people's opinions. So, the name of the exhibition was called ‘Black Sea'.”

○ Sungyong Park: When I think about it, there are more times when it's not the red sun, but when I think of the sun, I think the red sun comes up first.

▶ Suyoung Park: This is the stereotypes and prejudices learned through infusion education. This exhibition contains not only these stereotypes and prejudices, but also the situations created by anti-communist ideologies and progress that dominate our society, confrontation between conservatives, and biased religion and political thoughts.

▲ Shin Jung-gun, Star Erase (detail), 2020, variable size, installation

[Interview/ Sung Song Kang, Head of Curator]

“This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, the 60th anniversary of the 4.19 Revolution, and the 40th anniversary of the 5.18 Democratization Movement. The six artists who participated in the exhibition are the generations who grew up receiving anti-communist education from childhood. What those generations see from their own perspectives on the ideology that is currently shaping our society is shown through video work, sound, and installation work.”

○ Sungyong Park: It is the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, but the war is still not over. The ideological confrontation and conflict, which are still in the process of being in a situation of division, seem to be the same then and now.

▶ Suyoung Park: That's right. Conflict of ideology, conflict The subject is heavy with just two words. Since the contents of the exhibition are not light, the people who visited this day also spent quite a long time on each piece. After seeing the exhibition, I felt a lot of thoughts and a wider perspective.

○ Sungyong Park: It was a very beneficial time. Do you have any memorable works?

▶ Suyoung Park: The eco-chamber of Kim Youngeun, created for this exhibition, is memorable. This video asks about the sense of balance to see the truth as the two situations intersect.

○ Sungyong Park: ‘Eco Chamber' is this room right now. This room artificially creates echoes to give a feeling of reverberation when broadcasting or recording! What kind of video does this work show?

▶ Suyoung Park: (Description of the work) First, we show the Gwanghwamun demonstration site in the winter of 2016. At the protest site where people who share the same opinion are gathered, the voices of those who cannot escape are heard, and then the microphone is wrapped in a large piece of paper. It shows a scene in which a macro image and a micro sound betray each other through an object called microphone. Intersecting these two scenes is a metaphor for ‘Eco Chamber’. For more details about the work, I will listen to Kang Seong, the curator.

▲ Kim Youngeun, Echo Chamber, 2020, single channel video, stereo sound, 9 minutes 27 seconds

[Interview/ Youngeun Kim's Eco Chamber]

“The eco-chamber of Kim Youngeun only shares thoughts with like-minded people on social media, and that is why the phenomenon of believing in it even if one's thoughts are wrong is called an eco-chamber. But originally, it means a room where the eco-chamber creates reverberation. The paper surrounding the microphone is a small echo chamber. There is no sound from inside, but the sounds inside make a sound by repeating inside. It's subtle, but it creates a sound and it gradually reveals the place macroscopically.”

▶ Suyoung Park: Like the phrase ‘swallow sweetness and spit when you write, ‘ it is easy to find the “eco-chamber effect,” in which people with similar thoughts as they communicate with each other and gradually become biased.

○ Sungyong Park: That's right. These days, this ‘eco-chamber effect’ is conspicuously appearing, causing serious problems in politics and society. If you hang out with like-minded people, you get trapped in that thought, but it's not easy to try to avoid that.

▶ Suyoung Park: Let's start today. From today, I communicate with various people with an open mind. In addition, Moo-Young Kim's “From a YouTube Star's Perspective” examines the private life of a YouTuber and the life of a YouTuber with the theme of anti-communist activities. I'll listen a little.

▲ Kim Moo-young, from a YouTube star's point of view, 2019, 2-channel video, Channel 2 21 minutes 42 seconds

[Interview/ From the viewpoint of YouTube star of author Moo-young Kim]

“I realized 6.25 is the sound of cannons… I watched the battle scene, but I couldn't enjoy it that much. It was my wish to have an airplane toy. How much fun it was to have the toys tangled up and moving in front of my eyes, and after that it might drop me into the hell of misery.”

▶ Suyoung Park: Through the works of six artists full of personality, it makes me think that the ideas and thoughts that I believe are true and right may be the result of educated prejudice. Personally, it was a very meaningful exhibition that made me think that I should be judged without being swept away when encountering certain information. That's exactly the intention of planning this exhibition.

[Interview/ Sung Seong Kang, Head of Curator]

“I thought it would be nice to think about it from an intuitive and critical point of view, rather than accepting the content reported through the media or the stories that wander on the Internet. I wish I could see these things through my own eyes after seeing this exhibition. I think there may be black islands, and if I look at white, I want to have a perspective where I can draw in white.”

○ Sungyong Park: We must make a habit of judging by ourselves and meticulously weighing the facts without being swept away by any biased information. You said there are other exhibition-related programs prepared?

▶ Suyoung Park: Yes, from 5 pm on Thursday, June 11th, there is a time to watch a movie and chat with researcher Jeong Jong-hwa of the Korean Film Archive. I'll finish by listening to what kind of program it is.

[Interview/ Sung Seong Kang, Head of Curator]

“We prepared a movie screening program as an exhibition-linked program. The movie being screened is a film called Jakko by Director Im Kwon-taek. It was recently digitally restored. Unlike the anti-communist films that were led by the government at that time, I know that this film was intended to objectively deal with the left and right ideologies of South Korean society. This movie is attended by Researcher Jong-Hwa Jung of the Korean Film Archive and is having a time to talk about the movie together. Participants must apply in advance through the website.”

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