South Korea, 2007





“Remember, once you get to The Demilitarized Zone, there is no more De”, David Palmer, Public Affairs Specialist for the US Forces Korea.

On experiencing this Militarized environment, there is a realisation that the political is not just about representation and representable content, but is very much about how spaces are structured or how time is regimented. Using audio and image collected from an interview, the work ‘Speaker’ presents Gijeong-dong, a North Korean Propaganda village within the north side of the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
Here at the DMZ, the regiments of time and the structure of space serve to highlight the durational aspect of this constant breakdown and highly elaborate form of representing an antagonism that wont go away.

“It was here on July 27, 1953 that the American imperialists got down on their knees before the heroic Chosun people to sign the ceasefire for the war they had provoked June 25, 1950.”
North Korean message broadcast from loud speakers within Gijeong-dong Village, North Korea across to the South.

'Speaker' is presented as a print with accompanying audio tacks.