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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Only The Ports Are Loyal To Us, film, 2019






Only the Ports Are Loyal to Us reflects on the colonial history and the port ecology that connects two port cities: Amsterdam and Surabaya. The work is a journey through archival and contemporary images of each place, through which colonial legacies on both continents are revealed. The film footage is varied, including engraved prints of colonial ships from the 17th century, floor plans of warehouses along the IJ river, and a slideshow of the ship Jan Pieterszoon Coen departing from Amsterdam and docking at the port of Tanjung Perak in Surabaya. The film invites viewers to float through a dark space, which is constructed with archival images that are now obsolete.



Only The Ports Are Loyal To Us, exhibition



Exhibition <Only The Ports Are Loyal To Us>, 2019
C2O Library & Collabtive, Surabaya, Indonesia, curated by Ayos Purwoaji

Only The Ports Are Loyal To Us film installation view, scenographer Redo Nomadore, C2O Library & Collabtive, November 2019
Archival photos of Java Island located in Amsterdam, sources from the city archive of Amsterdam, installation view, C2O Library & Collabtive, 2019

Map of Tanjung Perak (SOERABAYA 1900-1950: HAVENS, STADSBEELD, PORT, NAVY, TOWNSCAPE, J.R. van Diesen, ASIA MAIOR, 2004), mural drawing, installation view, C2O Library & Collabtive, 2019