Yunjoo Kwak 곽윤주





The Boost Barracks, 2016 -

1. The Defectors, film
2. Interview : Peter (film fragment)
3. Old Postcard Series
4. Indexical Archives
5. The Boost Chronology
6. Photography




Only The Ports Are Loyal To Us, 2017 -

1. Only the Ports Are Loyal To Us, film
2. Holy Territory, film
3. Slauerhoffstraat, Reading Room
4. Interveiw : Amad (film fragment)




Becoming Stones, 2022 - 

1. Simbang, film
2. Stone of Fury, 3D animation
3. Holy Mountain
4. Table for Yeom One (念願)
5. Disaster HAGGYO




Black  Currents, 2024 -

(coming soon)

      






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Indexical Archives



installation view, Rujak Center for Urban Studies, Jakarta, 2017



 The images were collected throughout the course of developing the research of The Boost Barracks. In this photomontage, a set of vintage post cards with The Boost Barrack produced circa the 1950s to 1970s act as pixels and historical evidence/ reference. I then compiled images of the relevant historical events surrounding each postcard/ barrack. These images are scaled up or down in reference to the pixels. This constellation of images and text offer an expanded and overlapping narrative of the history of The Boost Barracks. I subtly play around with the images to bring together fragmented accounts of the biography the boost barracks. The fragments are such as floor plan of each different buildings, vintage postcards of barracks, image of NATO meeting, Dutch soldier’s UN mission during the Korean War, inside of the current building which transformed into asylum seeker’s center, etc.

이 사진 몽타주에서는 1950년대와 1970년대 사이에 제작된 막사의 빈티지 엽서를 기준 픽셀로 막사와 관련된 역사적 사건들의 이미지들과 겹쳐 놓았다. 픽셀 구조에 따라 확대 또는 축소된 이 조각들은 막사의 역사에 대한 확장되고 중첩되는 이야기를 열어주는 이미지와 텍스트의 집합체를 형성한다. 이 조각들에는 막사 건물의 평면도, NATO 회의 이미지, 한국전쟁 당시 유엔 임무에 참여한 네덜란드 병사들의 군사 조직도, 김일성의 연설물, 그리고 오늘날의 막사 내부와 외부 사진들도 포함되어 있다.