Playground
Between steep cliffs and lush branches, there is an old playground that has come down through ages from the word of mouth among children. What secrets are hidden here that seem to have been abandoned for years?
Unreal Engine
Quixel Mixer
Exhibited in web exhibition 𝙈𝙩. 𝙆𝙪𝙢𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙧𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙏𝙤𝙪𝙧
Suported by Arts Council Korea
Unreal Engine
Quixel Mixer
Exhibited in web exhibition 𝙈𝙩. 𝙆𝙪𝙢𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙧𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙏𝙤𝙪𝙧
Suported by Arts Council Korea
가파른 절벽과 우거진 수풀 사이에 넓은 공터가 보인다. 그곳엔 아이들 사이에서 입에서 입으로 전해지는 오래된 놀이터가 있는데, 수년간 버려진 것처럼 보이는 이곳에 어떤 비밀이 숨겨져 있을까.
아이들은 가끔 터무니없는 것에 필사적으로 매달려 땀을 흘리는 경우가 있다. 그것이 논리적으로 말이 되지 않거나 바보 같은 목표일지라도 끊임없이 도전하는 모습은 보는 이로 하여금 숭고하게 느껴지기도 한다.놀이터는 아이들이 위탁되어 놀기만 하는 곳이 아니다. 이곳에는 어른들 눈에 보이지 않는 수많은 약속과 규칙이 존재하고, 누구보다도 순수한 마음으로 필사적으로 놀아서 자기 자신을 수련하는 곳이다. 물리적, 정신적인 미션을 가지고 새로운 방식을 집요하게 시도하며 도전하는 신성한 놀이’터’이다. 터무니없는 상상을 기반으로 한 숭고한 목적 달성의 마음을 모아, 이 오래된 놀이터의 비밀을 깨우러 가보자.
Children sometimes sweat desperately in the playground clinging to nonsense.
Even if it’s a stupid goal that doesn’t make sense at all, the way children constantly challenge it even feels religious and spiritual. The playground is not just a place where children are entrusted by adults but it’s a place where they train themselves by playing desperately with a pure heart more than anyone else, setting their own invisible rules and goals. Children persistently confront physical and mental missions in this sacred open space in their own ways. Let's go to awaken the secrets of this old playground by gathering sublime drops of sweat based on absurdity.
𝙈𝙩. 𝙆𝙪𝙢𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙧𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙏𝙤𝙪𝙧
Curated by Juwon Choi
Artists: Kho Nak Beom, Jaewook Koh, Rae Koo, Eunjin Kim, YEONSU PARK, BAND BOWER, cihwan seok, namjoo jo, Eunsol Lee, YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, Soyoung Chung, SeungKyu Jung, Isak Chung+a.co.lab+Kimomin, Jane and Louise Wilson, JellyManjoo Studio, Byeongseok Choi, Futu-re-actions, Han, Seung-Ku
Date: December 1, 2022 – December 30, 2022
Venue: Web (via the link at the profile)
Production Design: DownLeit
-Web design: Lee Sanghyun
-Level design&Engine Programmer, video: Yi Je-hyung
Project Crew
Assistant Curator: Susie Bang
Translation: Jae Hyun Lee
Acknowledgments
Suported by Arts Council Korea
Cooperated by Geomang Creative Studio (GCS)
Hosted by Juwon Choi
Organized by I TALK ABOUT CONTEMPORARY
Even if it’s a stupid goal that doesn’t make sense at all, the way children constantly challenge it even feels religious and spiritual. The playground is not just a place where children are entrusted by adults but it’s a place where they train themselves by playing desperately with a pure heart more than anyone else, setting their own invisible rules and goals. Children persistently confront physical and mental missions in this sacred open space in their own ways. Let's go to awaken the secrets of this old playground by gathering sublime drops of sweat based on absurdity.
𝙈𝙩. 𝙆𝙪𝙢𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙧𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙏𝙤𝙪𝙧
Curated by Juwon Choi
Artists: Kho Nak Beom, Jaewook Koh, Rae Koo, Eunjin Kim, YEONSU PARK, BAND BOWER, cihwan seok, namjoo jo, Eunsol Lee, YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, Soyoung Chung, SeungKyu Jung, Isak Chung+a.co.lab+Kimomin, Jane and Louise Wilson, JellyManjoo Studio, Byeongseok Choi, Futu-re-actions, Han, Seung-Ku
Date: December 1, 2022 – December 30, 2022
Venue: Web (via the link at the profile)
Production Design: DownLeit
-Web design: Lee Sanghyun
-Level design&Engine Programmer, video: Yi Je-hyung
Project Crew
Assistant Curator: Susie Bang
Translation: Jae Hyun Lee
Acknowledgments
Suported by Arts Council Korea
Cooperated by Geomang Creative Studio (GCS)
Hosted by Juwon Choi
Organized by I TALK ABOUT CONTEMPORARY