Silk Road

2000
Jiki Park, Silk Road, 2000. monitor, VCR, speaker, amplifier, CD player, iron frame. dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. The 1st Seoul International Media Art Biennale media_city seoul 2000 city: between 0 and 1. Installation in the transfer passage from Line 2 to Line 8 at the platform toward Seongnae Station of Jamsil Station Installation in the transfer passage between the Line 2. 2000
Jiki Park, Silk Road, 2000. monitor, VCR, speaker, amplifier, CD player, iron frame. dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. The 1st Seoul International Media Art Biennale media_city seoul 2000 city: between 0 and 1. Installation in the transfer passage from Line 2 to Line 8 at the platform toward Seongnae Station of Jamsil Station Installation in the transfer passage between the Line 2. 2000

At Jamsil subway station, there is a transfer corridor connecting Line 2 and Line 8. This passageway is 150 meters long and there is nothing special to see there, so passengers walk through it without paying attention. This installation artwork is about transforming a nondescript passageway into a promenade so that the station assumes a new sensibility, that of an underground city. Park installed more than ten video monitors with 29-inch screens on the ceiling, held up by supports. Idealized natural landscapes are displayed on each monitor, accompanied by The Silk Road, a piece of music composed and played by Byungki Hwang. The monitors were installed in harmony with the rhythms of musical forms. Now that passengers can see images from nature and listen to music, which were previously missing from this underground space, the transfer corridor is no longer a boring passageway but a space for strolling while enjoying visual and aural stimuli.

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