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The 54 Jurymen and the 14 Flatterers   Previous Project   |   Next Project      The 54 Jurymen and the 14 Flatterers Where: Samdong Boys' Orphanage in Nanzido, Seoul, Korea  When: November 4, 2000 - December 2, 2000       A Group Exhibition on the Samdong Boys' Orphanage in Nanzido, Seoul, Korea   The Story of the Title The Samdong Boys' Orphanage is not a gallery, a school, or a special place. It is just the sweet home for the 54 children who eat, play, and sleep there. The 14 flatterers who are strangers to them enter the home to add artistic performances to the 54. The quick-witted flatterer group wants to meet the 54 jurymen and other audiences with more active movement over the existing artistic methods. They plan the flattery with interactive artworks as a kind of service to the boys who will be positive and sensitive jurymen. However, nobody can predict how the jurymen will react. They just hope that the jurymen group can see the world with more affirmative and positive views through the flatterers' approach. Now 14 flatterers stride toward the boys' side, with the belief that their performances will be meaningful for the boys     Participating Artists Kim, Jae Hwan  /  Jeon, Byeong Sam  /  Lee, Seung Min  /  Kim, Seung Beom  /  Lee, Hwi Young  /  Park, Joo Young  /  Lee, Hae Jik  /  Park, Jung Lim  /  Byon, Soo Young  /  Eum, Sae Young  /  Lee, Joo Hae  /  Lee, Chang Suk  /  Park, Chang Eun  /  Jeon, In Sook   Staff - Exclusive Directing : Kim, Jae Hwan - Co-Chief Directing : Jeon, Byeong Sam / Lee, Seung Min / Kim, Seung Beom / Lee, Hwi Young - Secretariat Division : Park, Joo Young / Lee, Hae Jik - Public Relations Division : Park, Jung Lim / Byon, Soo Young / Um, Sae Young - Editors' Department : Lee, Joo Hae / Lee, Chang Suk / Park, Joo Young - Liaison Division : Jeon, Byeong Sam / Park, Chang Eun / Jeon, In Sook   Zoological Garden 2 2000-2001, Installation + storytelling video with 16 pictures Samdong Boys' Orphanage, Seoul, Korea   Media: Steel and Steel Bars + Monitor + CC Camera + Audio Set + Dump installation dimension : 80 x 120 x 300 (cm)   ( TRT: 1 min 40 sec)   The video requires quicktime.       Description - A Study of Abandoned Children Although society continues to progress, children abandoned because of their parents' divorce or being born from a single mother remain a serious problem. I planned Zoological Garden 2 as a consideration of this tragic situation from an artist's standpoint. I got in close contact with Seoul Samdong Boys' Orphanage, a refuge for abandoned children, where I felt I could pursue a meaningful project. This work was inspired by my childhood memory of making eye contact with a chimpanzee behind the bars of its zoo cage 19 years ago. I tried to create a confused situation where I demolished the boundaries between two opposing concepts that are separated by the cage bars: freedom and confinement, or inside and outside. I installed metal bars and a monitor which have a hidden CC camera in the middle of the orphanage dump so that the viewers can look inside and find themselves behind the bars through the hidden camera. In this way I tried to lead the viewers to challenge their own system of thought. This installation piece was photographed in a 16 shot sequence and finally edited together as a video image to attempt to deliver a clear impression.

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