Credit

This event was a public program organized to extend the discussion surrounding the artwork Credit, presented by Yangachi in the 10th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Eu Zên.

Yangachi is known for works like Tree Man (Gangwon Biennale, Gangneung, 2018), Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer, Willy-Nilly Version (The Dasi (Again) Sewoon Project, Seoul, 2016), When Two Galaxies Merge (Atelier Hermès, Seoul, 2017), Black Hole × White Hole (2013–2018) (Busan Biennale, 2016), Sea Salt Theater (The Subtle Triangle, Seoul Museum of Art Seosomun, 2015), and Sweet and sour plums will be more than enough to relieve your thirst (Galeria Metropolitana, Santiago, 2014). He is currently participating in the projects of the Hyundai Card × Jeju Island, Gapado AiR (Artist-inResidence), ZERO1NE Creative Network Platform.

Credit consists of several periods of projects, not among acquaintances but among unspecified mass audiences. The artist thinks that limitations to reciprocal or utilitarian altruism cannot be helped in today’s society. The project encourages the audiences to have a discussion on a possible society or community in which its members share common-pool-resources and individuals can simultaneously receive benefits—in other words, a “certain” advanced form of altruism, or credit. Yangachi established a conversational situation to provide the audience with an opportunity to determine the ways in which the present specifically harbors living processes that are regarded as merely functional and inhumane and to imagine a media-based future.