Earth Monument Workshop

In these workshops participants create soil structures resembling mini-versions of ikkibawiKrrr’s courtyard installation Earth Monument. The monuments are created by compressing soil collected from the outskirts of Seoul’s satellite cities into molds. After the workshop, the finished works are collected and installed on a pedestal. As the monuments gather through the workshops, a soil city is created, evoking the newly developed cities that formerly were industrial complexes. These complexes were home to migrant communities that worked in the factories. As redevelopment has led to the displacement of migrant workers and dissolution of their communities, large plots of trees—some of which are a hundred years old—have also been uprooted, cut down, or displaced. The transfer of soil that used to connect communities and trees alike to the city center speaks to the movement of human and non-human individuals and communities across the country. The monuments made at the workshops will be displayed in the 3rd floor project gallery until the end of the biennale.