Suchang Youth Mansion
Co-prosperity Sphere
Night Shift is composed of 60 suspended mirrors, and 4 projections of 3 live-feed videos, and a video of a text. Reflecting surrounding views of the space, the suspended mirrors slowly spin. Those reflections randomly cast back and forth among neighboring mirrors. Simultaneously the mirrors throw projections back as they spin. As a result, these fragmented views of the space, including people, building and the text, orbit through various surfaces of the space, fusing different perspectives, presence, and times together.
Using these arbitrary reflections coming from the text that describes the Korean diaspora (and a history of US immigration law for the US version), I tried to deliver a history of migration* that can be translated into a history: who has been accepted and validated to be ”Us.”
2019 (US. Ver.)/2020 (Korean Ver.)
Site-specific 4-Channel live-feed video installation: 60min looping video. US version text: the Major US immigration law timeline/fact sheet (1790-2013) from the Migration Policy Institute. Korean version text: histories of Korean Diaspora (1900-2000), Projectors, cameras, mirrors, mirror stands, and mirror film on windows.
Dimensions variable