https://kevinparkjunghoo.com Kevin Park Jung-Hoo Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:50:46 +0000 https://kevinparkjunghoo.com en https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/Home Mon, 08 Aug 2022 11:17:06 +0000 Kevin Park Jung-Hoo https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/Home *Website construction in progress... More information is coming.* CURRENT <img width="2160" height="2160" width_o="2160" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7948e842250109bcf4859dbbb32a125a8842ee65599d80a34b44ea0d59e9326c/2.png" data-mid="226088372" border="0" data-scale="35" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7948e842250109bcf4859dbbb32a125a8842ee65599d80a34b44ea0d59e9326c/2.png" /> https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/Mobile-header Fri, 18 Mar 2022 04:00:07 +0000 Kevin Park Jung-Hoo https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/Mobile-header Kevin Park Jung-Hoo Korean-Canadian filmmaker and visual artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréalkevinparkjunghoo@gmail.com Exhibition Views Works (as Solo Artist) - Aejang Project - Truth-Production 24 Seconds A Time (And Every Cut is a Fun Fact) - Home Made Home (as THEIR (T)HERE:duo with jin heewoong) - Take Us Somewhere Cinematography &amp; Editing - Recitation - Leave Me, Don’t Leave Me - REBO(U)ND InformationAbout CV https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/Aejang-Project Sun, 30 Mar 2025 18:10:36 +0000 Kevin Park Jung-Hoo https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/Aejang-Project Aejang Project (on-going) The conception of this project has initially begun when Park first heard about his father’s oldest memory: The moment when he went up a mountain with my grandfather to bury his one-year-old sister's corpse - he was about three years old. Park’s aunt was not the only infant death in the village, and they were, including his father's sister, buried in the form of aejang. In Korea, aejang indicates both the traditional ritual of burying children who have passed away in their infancy and the grave itself. Infants who passed away due to poverty and diseases were, in the past, seen as bad luck. Thus, the tradition itself is designed to forget: the child is buried in the dark, at night, without the mother present, under a pile of rocks that will slowly dissolve away, becoming part of the natural surroundings. The body is usually wrapped in hemp; the smell of cannabis will help the “death messengers” find the lost soul and guide the child to a better next-life. These children were typically excluded from family trees. The phrase “burying something in one’s heart” possibly traces its origins to this practice. With Korea’s economic development, aejang has faded, much as those who experienced it chose to forget and focus on surviving the turmoil of their times.Taking this part of his family history, Park contemplates the ontological relationship between heritage and a diasporic being, framing history as “a disappearance that does not disappear,” and ponders the possibility of consolation with his generational trauma, caused by both personal and historical narratives, by taking an active part in the processes of forgetting/letting-go – suggesting the act of grieving and acceptance as an act of embodied recollection and reconnection of the physical and temporal distance laid between heritage/history and a diasporic body. 2025 <img width="4228" height="2364" width_o="4228" height_o="2364" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94372d7213c4eaf0a536601e44fddc43fa8636c20fe20ac67b69924938e8c006/Inbul---video-still.jpg" data-mid="228991188" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94372d7213c4eaf0a536601e44fddc43fa8636c20fe20ac67b69924938e8c006/Inbul---video-still.jpg" /> In-bul <img width="8640" height="5760" width_o="8640" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5318f951a9d33250bbbd9791cdc57908dd9f2e702dd50449c27c3be5383b08b8/Tree-Hansoogol.jpg" data-mid="229049235" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5318f951a9d33250bbbd9791cdc57908dd9f2e702dd50449c27c3be5383b08b8/Tree-Hansoogol.jpg" /> Great Physical Distance is Another Name of Great Temporal Distance <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7506facfc0a04947edac8b0148ed27b0b51757eb1c8bc7455bced6cd029a9240/An-Unreachable-Letter-to-My-Grandmother-video-still.png" data-mid="229049253" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7506facfc0a04947edac8b0148ed27b0b51757eb1c8bc7455bced6cd029a9240/An-Unreachable-Letter-to-My-Grandmother-video-still.png" /> An Unreachable Letter to My Grandmother <img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc34845e0f938ad8a557bb679412c6a6bed14d405d1d85bebba6c08062c542b1/GLV06487_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" data-mid="229049332" border="0" data-scale="86" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc34845e0f938ad8a557bb679412c6a6bed14d405d1d85bebba6c08062c542b1/GLV06487_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" /> Other Works 2023 <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/881cc3729cd91e6932f358b5cce2b26de4d8bc64a329dad310a212ec5535dbb1/In-Place-of-Your-Name-video-still.jpg" data-mid="229052344" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/881cc3729cd91e6932f358b5cce2b26de4d8bc64a329dad310a212ec5535dbb1/In-Place-of-Your-Name-video-still.jpg" /> In Place of Your Name Starting Point&nbsp; <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d3852551fcb78113e6cec5b0ab1b789fefd5c4499b948ef45570fd29a496189/Letters-from-a-Gapping-Zone-work-in-progress.jpg" data-mid="229052470" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d3852551fcb78113e6cec5b0ab1b789fefd5c4499b948ef45570fd29a496189/Letters-from-a-Gapping-Zone-work-in-progress.jpg" /> Letter(s) from a Gapping Zone (work-in-progress) https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/In-bul Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:55:31 +0000 Kevin Park Jung-Hoo https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/In-bul In-bulIn-bul (인불, ignis fatuus) is a phenomenon in which the In (Phosphorus) escapes the bones of a rotting corpse, sparking fire as it meets the air. It was a phenomenon which occurred occasionally around graveyards and aejang-teus (애장터). Taking this motif, In-bul expands the conceptual framework of the first iteration of this ritualistic gesture - a conceptual reinterpretation of the “aejang” ritual - in In Place of Your Name (2023). While the latter was placed in Montreal, this work takes place in the mountain where my aunt is supposedly buried. - 16 min 37 sec - Cinematography: Sungjin Lee https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/Great-Physical-Distance-is-Another-Name-of-Great-Temporal-Distance Sun, 30 Mar 2025 17:59:52 +0000 Kevin Park Jung-Hoo https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/Great-Physical-Distance-is-Another-Name-of-Great-Temporal-Distance Great Physical Distance is Another Name of Great Temporal Distance A photo series taken with celluloid film that were intentionally exposed to scorching heat of several Korean summers and x-ray machines at airports during my trips between Korea and Canada. The results are “damaged” images presenting not only its subject but also the physical and temporal distances laid between my two homelands. <img width="8640" height="5760" width_o="8640" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0603e4806d3a69bd0c777423f26d08742ecd0d5d4a0ace93d10b1535b0ce54c/Tree-Hansoogol.jpg" data-mid="229060167" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0603e4806d3a69bd0c777423f26d08742ecd0d5d4a0ace93d10b1535b0ce54c/Tree-Hansoogol.jpg" /> <img width="8640" height="5760" width_o="8640" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d5c74df0c3b72a2bbb0beca12089e29669e3c28ebaa240f60ac3d37ab34d79b/_DSC0957.JPG" data-mid="229060172" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d5c74df0c3b72a2bbb0beca12089e29669e3c28ebaa240f60ac3d37ab34d79b/_DSC0957.JPG" /> Tree (Hansoogol) 10 x 10 printed on organic cotton/hemp Lightbox Grandmother’s Hands with Ro ck from Hansoogol10 x 10printed on organic cotton/hempLightbox https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/An-Unreachable-Letter-to-My-Grandmother Sun, 30 Mar 2025 18:04:21 +0000 Kevin Park Jung-Hoo https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/An-Unreachable-Letter-to-My-Grandmother An Unreachable Letter to My Grandmother With the sudden passing of his grandmother, Park assembled footage with a letter dedicated to her. The work contemplates on the meaning of her absence and the untracable history embedded in her village. - 18 min 52 sec <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c27cd5e852553b76e297e1716214a6be0145615ee6f995e382fe3369fe1251f/An-Unreachable-Letter-to-My-Grandmother.jpg" data-mid="229060493" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c27cd5e852553b76e297e1716214a6be0145615ee6f995e382fe3369fe1251f/An-Unreachable-Letter-to-My-Grandmother.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6461caa8523ec6cc1bbcd94a33caef39c1d158c2ae12e91e5150bcc85f187df/An-Unreachable-Letter-to-My-Grandmother---video-still-3.jpg" data-mid="229060492" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6461caa8523ec6cc1bbcd94a33caef39c1d158c2ae12e91e5150bcc85f187df/An-Unreachable-Letter-to-My-Grandmother---video-still-3.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29aebb1d99863ee916aa6b9c1509e8db4ab5cec9f3e1d68a3389cdff4dd56514/An-Unreachable-Letter-to-My-Grandmother---video-still-4.png" data-mid="229060495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29aebb1d99863ee916aa6b9c1509e8db4ab5cec9f3e1d68a3389cdff4dd56514/An-Unreachable-Letter-to-My-Grandmother---video-still-4.png" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e08edb4ae5edc5c7c4ec8ea8f82cba889b79b526fe4069c56b9b8db8d636042/GLV06492_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" data-mid="229060438" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e08edb4ae5edc5c7c4ec8ea8f82cba889b79b526fe4069c56b9b8db8d636042/GLV06492_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1329" width_o="2000" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da78d8b8b024bc2fde7c3901868453f755a483eb09cd3124fed083e900fa6c04/GLV06505_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" data-mid="229060478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/da78d8b8b024bc2fde7c3901868453f755a483eb09cd3124fed083e900fa6c04/GLV06505_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" /> Photo Documentation by Guy L’Heureux https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/Aejang-Other Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:50:46 +0000 Kevin Park Jung-Hoo https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/Aejang-Other Other Walking Aid Image of one of the strollers that Park’s grandmother would use as a walking aid. It is common practice for elders in Korea to use the stroller in this particular way. - 28 x 42 - Printed on organic cotton/hemp - Documentation: Guy L’Heureux <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8232e94a351d0c7a91d51ba58b4ef91761f34ac44e4f57816b237f63a1cc225d/GLV06550_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" data-mid="229060573" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8232e94a351d0c7a91d51ba58b4ef91761f34ac44e4f57816b237f63a1cc225d/GLV06550_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11a0545bf70b0a20d4014d63ee120774ad43e991b3f8c11e89004bc01bb3b85a/GLV06547_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" data-mid="229060574" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11a0545bf70b0a20d4014d63ee120774ad43e991b3f8c11e89004bc01bb3b85a/GLV06547_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" /> From My Aejang-teu #2 Image of one of the many hemp-rocks created during the ritualistic gestures from In-bul. 33 x 50 Printed on organic cotton/hemp - Photo Credit: Jinyoung Kim - Documentation:&nbsp;Guy L’Heureux <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/354e19c3fcdf307900ec0cd39f69953dc371d4b8a389dd348a4bfba82ca6e44b/GLV06492_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" data-mid="229060580" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/354e19c3fcdf307900ec0cd39f69953dc371d4b8a389dd348a4bfba82ca6e44b/GLV06492_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" /> <img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f1e3444c658964c94d3c90caf8066a973d95bff43ddfa9d3a4f0330f77bf493/GLV06487_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" data-mid="229060579" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f1e3444c658964c94d3c90caf8066a973d95bff43ddfa9d3a4f0330f77bf493/GLV06487_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" /> Grandmother’s Swollen Hand After Her Passing &nbsp;Photo of Park’s grandmother’s swollen hand a few hours after her passing. - 13 x 10 - Printed on organic cotton/hemp - Documentation: Guy L’Heureux <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd807d7236f66b39d1b6b165a158dfd0b3e6af954c58c6517c1ad063f572a6e6/GLV06476_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" data-mid="229060585" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd807d7236f66b39d1b6b165a158dfd0b3e6af954c58c6517c1ad063f572a6e6/GLV06476_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1723" width_o="2000" height_o="1723" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c635764455cc684fb89c50bd463c8739f7793dc1b7e25f803fa5e3585636a4e9/GLV06481_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" data-mid="229060584" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c635764455cc684fb89c50bd463c8739f7793dc1b7e25f803fa5e3585636a4e9/GLV06481_Photo-Guy-LHeureux.jpg" /> You, Apart from Me, A Part of Me (An Unreachable Letter to My Aunt) – ver.5A letter written to Park’s aunt. Park continues to write variations of the same letter repeadidly over the duration of his Aejang Project. - Printed on hemp paper. <img width="8640" height="5760" width_o="8640" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41923e5d8a0715ad959cf798f129a8ea2f29c2927f3a722667a3992480545446/_DSC0940.JPG" data-mid="229060612" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41923e5d8a0715ad959cf798f129a8ea2f29c2927f3a722667a3992480545446/_DSC0940.JPG" /> https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/Truth-Production-24-Seconds Fri, 18 Mar 2022 04:00:08 +0000 Kevin Park Jung-Hoo https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/Truth-Production-24-Seconds Truth-Production 24 Seconds a Time (And Every Cut is a Fun Fact) Truth-Production 24 Seconds a Time (And Every Cut is a Fun Fact) is a continuing video installation series that extends the duration of a film (or sequences of films) by extending each frame to 24 seconds and replacing every 24th frame with a “fun fact” about the film. The project has been conceptualized by twisting one of the most recognizable quotes in the history of cinema, “Cinema is truth 24 times a second”. The quote has often been used to praise the greatness of cinema as a truth-capturing tool in real-time. However, not only this is a misquotation – one must add “and every cut is a lie” to quote the line properly – the praise often originates from the confusion between “truth” and “fact”; the true meaning of the word “truth” is rather a sense of manufactured and/or mediated reality which can easily be associated with issues of power. Alongside the clock, cinema has contributed to the enforcing of “clock-time” as E.P. Thompson puts it, for it presents fragments of space-time in a mechanically “perfect” temporal succession. From the invention of the cinematographe, many Euro-American governments and investors saw the potential of cinema as an educational tool that can “uplift” the uncivilized colonized peoples. During this process, not only did cinema contribute to constructing a visual depiction that looked at the non-White bodies as uncivilized, but it also took part in erasing the cultural understandings of lived time and replacing it with a rational temporality that can be rationally divided and commodified into these worlds. To reflect upon this aspect further, the first iteration of this series begins with three films by the Lumière Brothers in Indochina. After the success of their first films, which are generally considered to be the beginning of cinema as we know of, the Lumière Brothers deployed many operators to the world to produce films outside of France including the colonized worlds. When doing so, the Lumiere Brothers ordered their operators to photograph these worlds that resonates with the sceneries that were portrayed in the oriental literature that was popular in Europe at the time[6], which were the same literature Said used in his magnum opus, Orientalism(1978), to critique the colonial gaze that produced the notion of The Orient (or The Other). This coincided with the appeal of the medium to many government officials and the bourgeoisie to see it as an “educational tool” to integrate the colonized people within the industrial model the Euro-American wanted to enforce through colonization which has been particularly true with Indochina at the time. The current series consist of works: Lumière Actualités (Indochina) #1 to #3. It asks the audience to contemplate on the industrial logic behind cinema – a succession of multiple moments in time-space at a precise velocity (as if they were laid on a conveyor belt) – and the effects it had in shaping the image of The Other and its colonial routes. https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/Take-Us-Somewhere Fri, 18 Mar 2022 04:00:09 +0000 Kevin Park Jung-Hoo https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/Take-Us-Somewhere Take Us Somewhere Collaborative Project with jin heewoong. Selected Works 1. We, May Arrive Somewhere (2023) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;- selected footage 2. Take Us Somewhere (2023)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;- video still <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bde4cf3ec432be245dfc82246953114e2a639bf3964666ff4ad4a5b9c83887e4/take-us-somewhere-2023---video-still.jpg" data-mid="202739304" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bde4cf3ec432be245dfc82246953114e2a639bf3964666ff4ad4a5b9c83887e4/take-us-somewhere-2023---video-still.jpg" /> https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/In-Place-of-Your-Name Fri, 18 Mar 2022 04:00:08 +0000 Kevin Park Jung-Hoo https://kevinparkjunghoo.com/In-Place-of-Your-Name In Place of Your Name <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac20621b475f195aeb9ee2421f3863aae6f49233d402337dcac36fd237355315/KJP00051-Kevin-1.jpg" data-mid="168985908" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac20621b475f195aeb9ee2421f3863aae6f49233d402337dcac36fd237355315/KJP00051-Kevin-1.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f976d8bc3cd3998221c8dc067dcf2d217c66c780ed0951d2f68c1ba35b8c0dd/KJP00055-Kevin-1.jpg" data-mid="168986000" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f976d8bc3cd3998221c8dc067dcf2d217c66c780ed0951d2f68c1ba35b8c0dd/KJP00055-Kevin-1.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eebbac9c6aa2ebfc7e0e2ae570f7c8dbee6a0771e35261cc3ca02e3ed0d8fe38/burning-letter-3---no-color-grade-gigapixel-standard-scale-4_00x-kevin_1.jpg" data-mid="168986170" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eebbac9c6aa2ebfc7e0e2ae570f7c8dbee6a0771e35261cc3ca02e3ed0d8fe38/burning-letter-3---no-color-grade-gigapixel-standard-scale-4_00x-kevin_1.jpg" />