The artist squatted in an empty house of a public housing tenement. This space is on top of the building where White Stork Nest’s workshop and studio is located. Unlike general artistic squatting that is radical and exaggerated, this proceeded secretively and quietly. The artist took up a room that was not his, hypothetically conceived that his rent was overdue. He then did a productive act equivalent to the amount of the rent. This art book was written during this performative act of squatting. He also visited his colleagues’ unfamiliar places, expanding this art project. The art book includes content from one of the pre-Mediacity Seoul 2016 programs, “Meeting on Community Art: the exhaustion (regeneration) of public art,” including related materials, coverage on the participating communities, general context on White Stork Nest’s practices, the recorder’s personal life and research, and other comprehensive configurations and fragmentary information.
