Park Life (2017)
2 single channel videos & archive room
Exhibition at 台北國際藝術村－寶藏巖 Taipei Artist Village－Treasure Hill
★ 展期 Exhibition Dates／2017.3.25(Sat.)-5.14(Sun.)
「創作像海洋，愛你像光」－2017寶藏巖光節
You are the Sunshine of my Life－2017 Treasure Hill Light Festival
The Park at the End of a City
Park Life is a project to deliver a relationship between the park in a city and the citizens, based on Taipei and Seoul. Today, a Park is a place representative of citizens’ leisure activities. Now a public land for citizens residing deep in their ordinary lives, the park first began in the history of modern city formation. As for the cases of Taipei and Seoul, the first park appeared in the late 19th century when traditional cities were changed into modern cities. The Nanji Park of Seoul, the starting point of this project, was a notorious landfill where all the trash in Seoul was gathered even until the early 1990s. Suffered from stench and pollution, the land was transformed into a famous park of Seoul citizens through the extensive urban purification policy. The park, regenerated at the edge of the city, meets with the context of the Treasure Hill, of which we will organize an exhibition. At the end of Taipei, this place was also originally planned by the city as a park. However, the plan was canceled because of intense protest by activists and residents for reservation, and the town of the past was preserved so that it is open to the citizens as what it is now. Between the ends of the two cities, or between the urban rehabilitation by establishing a park (the Nanji Park) and the urban regeneration by reservation (the Treasure Hill), there appears the desire of urban development / regeneration / transformation through many urban parks in the world. The exhibition takes ‘lighting,’ another symbol of urban city, as a motif and deals with the social relationship between the time contained in the parks and the citizens.
Re-tracing Buro 