South Korea
Delay X Transition
Energy_Invisible Words tells the story of mankind now trying to transition from a fossil energy-oriented system to decarbonized energy. It invites the audience to explore what languages we are missing and what languages we have not acquired in the time of transition. On the stage, objects and words representing thermal power plants, nuclear power plants, wind power plants, and solar power plants are scattered. The audience rearranges the words and objects on stage to hear the voice behind each energy power plant. It also invites them to think about what a better energy structure would be. This work is about the process of anonymous people gathering in a theater space and creating the language of 'climate' as a group.
SynopsisCan we put the climate crisis into our own language? Kim Jeeyeon and Jeon Yoonhwan raise the question of whether the absence and distortion of language is creating an absence of imagination in the era of climate crisis, and explore ways to visualize the invisible contemporary crisis using the language of artists. In this work, words to redefine the concept of energy, and the words of the parties to the climate trial, and the victims of the climate crisis are scattered on the stage. These words are used as seeds. The audience connects creators and words, finds what's on the other side of words, puts sentences together to actively imagine and interpret the future, and seeks directions and tasks for a transitional society together.
Kim Jeeyeon
Climate researcher and producer. Starting with ‘Artists’ Residency at Arts Farm Tutbat – Climate Change' in 2021, she is studying local regions in the context of the climate crisis. She is working on the Changing Climate Language project which explores a post-anthropocentric artistic language.
Jeon Yoonhwan
Recognizing the contemporaneity of documentary theater, Jeon Yoonhwan has been exploring various theatrical methodologies to mediate reality in his works. His major works include Climate Emergency: A Rehearsal (2022), Natural Bread (2021), and Ganghwa Island Walks: Peace Document (2021).
Research and Co-director ｜ KIM Jeeyeon & JEON Yoonhwan
Creative producer ｜ PARK Jisun
Producer ｜ CHOI Bongmin
Assistant Director ｜ CHUNG Chandong
Sound ｜ Kayip
Lighting Director ｜ TAK Hyungsun
Sound Director ｜ JEONG Hayoon
Scenographer ｜ KIM Hyewon
Accessibility Manager ｜ Choi Bogmin
Korean Sign Language ｜ Signlanguage Interpretation Coopreative
(Koh Kounghee, Kim Soo-nyon, Chang JinSeok, Cho YeonJae)
Communication access real-time translation ｜ Cho Sungjin
Producer and researcher Kim Jeeyeon and theater director Jeon Yoonhwan met as participating artists in the 2022 ‘Artists’ Residency at Arts Farm Tutbat - Climate Change’. In order to ‘delay’ the era of the climate crisis and achieve a righteous ‘transition’, the two artists are working on creating new imaginations that we need using the language of art.
Starting with ‘Artists’ Residency at Arts Farm Tutbat – Climate Change' in 2021, Kim Jeeyeon is conducting research on the theme of 'Climate Crisis X Local' in Korea and overseas. She does not limit her interest in regions and community to the existing community oriented methods, but broadly interprets the possibilities of community as an urban and future experiment on community members and their sense of place. She explores the nature of urban areas and continues experiments to create the role of space as a public forum where social relationships can be formed.
Recognizing the contemporaneity of documentary theater, Jeon Yoonhwan has been exploring various theatrical methodologies to mediate reality in his works. He persistently thinks about doing theater (art) in contemporary capitalist society. With provocative sincerity, he uses practical research rooted in everyday experience as a theatrical strategy and expands concrete reflection on reality.
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