Stairway to Heaven | VIDEO | STILLS |
<천국의 계단>/ "Stairway to Heaven", Live Video Performance Installation, 30 min., 2016 |
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Live video performance is an offshoot of the popular K-drama "Stairway to Heaven", 2003, which was the vanguard for popularization of K-drama across the non-western world. The piece reveals the structure of performing romance to critique Asian popular media which exploit the emotion of helplessness through the mechanism of soap opera. Multiple cameras capture four characters performing a double love triangle during the opening of the actual exhibition which are edited and broadcasted live into the gallery space. Audience discovers that the emotion of love is thus a calculated political decision rather than characters having their own agency, while witnessing actual performers and video images of them simultaneously in a space. The result can be seen as a reversal of a “romantic comedy” to create a “comedic romance”.
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