The dreaming collective knows no history

(US Embassy to Japanese Embassy, Seoul)

2006, single-channel video

The dreaming collective knows no history (U.S. Embassy to Japanese Embassy, Seoul) extends Yoon's interest in the interrelationship between the built environment of the city, history and the body. The first part of the title makes reference to Walter Benjamin’s suggestion that modernity and the flows of history are phantasmagoric. The second part of the title refers to the performance for the video on the street moving from the U.S. Embassy to the Japanese Embassy in Seoul. Formally tipping the vertical city of skyscrapers and bipedal humans onto a horizontal plane, alludes to the simultaneously submissive and subversive possibilities of this inversion. Rife in historical and contemporary references and associations, the smooth flows of progress and power as well as the frantic pace of production and consumption are interrupted.

The dreaming collective knows no history (US Embassy to Japanese Embassy, Seoul), 2006, (video still)

The dreaming collective knows no history (US Embassy to Japanese Embassy, Seoul), 2006, (video still)

The dreaming collective knows no history (US Embassy to Japanese Embassy, Seoul), 2006, (video still)

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