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Screen Walk with Yehwan Song
About this film
In this Screen Walk, Yehwan Song premiered a poem-based web performance about private and public space in contemporary internet culture. Inspired by Inhun Choi's novel The Square , the artist employed the metaphor of "the square without a private chamber" to address how people are losing their private spaces, connections, handmade homepages, and intimate webrings, only to be filled with social media, giant search engines, and AI-based chat services over which they have no control or overview. Virtual voices emerging from the artist's performance created a harmony that sings of their longing for a private space. The performance acted as a song for an ideal internet where private chambers and the square balance and complete each other. Screen Walks is a series of live-streamed artist/researcher-led explorations of online spaces and artistic strategies designed to illuminate a thriving – often overlooked – digital cultural scene. A new online collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery , UK and Fotomuseum Winterthur , Switzerland. Screen Walks is kindly supported by: Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.
Directors & creators
Screen Walks
Subjects
Screen Walks, Yehwan Song, social-media, capitalism, performance
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