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15th DMZ Docs(2023)

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Tender Territory and Micro Reality

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SHIN Hara

  • Korea, Germany
  • 2022
  • 40min
  • 12 +
  • DCP
  • color

World Premiere

Synopsis

The enigmatic beings known as ¡®Precarious Beings¡¯ - including ¡®The Wanderer,¡¯ ¡®The Woven,¡¯ ¡®The Melted,¡¯ ¡®The Nameless,¡¯ and ¡®The Taxidermized¡¯ - find themselves caught in the ever-shifting territory between the realms of the living and the vanishing. They drift through space and time, embodying forms ranging from organisms, matter, and natural phenomena to bodily organs, languages, network systems, and artificial devices, while contemplating the probability of their own existence. 

Review

Tender Territory and Micro Reality is an experimental video work that explores new modes of existence in an era of extinction, annihilation, and destruction. Shin Hara, a Berlin-based artist who has experimented with a variety of formats from experimental video to media installation to VR, sets up fictional characters in this work. ¡®The Wanderer,¡¯ ¡®The Woven,¡¯ ¡®The Melted,¡¯ ¡®The Nameless,¡¯ and ¡®The Taxidermized¡¯, the characters represent states of being rather than identities. The fragmentary dialogues between these states, applicable to both inorganic and organic matter, in a fictionalized space, exemplify an experiment in which natural and artificial, human and non-human actors coexist in a new space and order. It is a work of intellectual and creative sensitivity that naturally evokes the philosophical insights of actor theory and neo-materialism, which are at the forefront of contemporary thought.

Director

  • SHIN Hara

    Shin's primary focus lies in the realms of film, video, and multimedia installations. Shin employs micro-narratives that bridge the gaps between time and space, shaped by elements like substance, nature, the body, and the fragmented identity of the agent and their environment. Through this approach, Shin seeks to reconfigure the context and process of possession, transfer, and integration within structural relationships between nature and artificiality, documentary and fiction, and human and non-human aspects. Noteworthy works by Shin include shorts like Speculative Atlas (2020) and Mouthless Dialogue (2019).

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