Foreword_Kim Seong Eun, Director, Nam June Paik Art Center
The Future of Silence_Kim Yoonseo. Curator, Nam June Paik Art Center
Nam June Paik and the Ownership of Language_Robert J. Fouser, Linguist
Jaye Moon
Juho Lee & Juseung Lee
Jesse Chun
Lawrence Lek
Ji Hye Yeom
Woojin Kim
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Angelica Mesiti
Dead Body and Ghost – Kim Junghyun, Art Critic
A Note on the Exhibition – Kim Ae-ran, Writer
The Future of Silence: When your tongue vanishes, a special exhibition departing from the question influenced by novelist Kim Ae-ran’s short story of the same title, aims to investigate language, which is spoken and written, body and spirit, reality and idea as well as system and culture. The eight participating artists based in various cities across the world, including Seoul, New York, London, Paris and Beirut, meet on a common ground that they focus on the layers that are captured by a dichotomous view of the world and highlight a diversity of existences in their own language, providing the opportunity to see them again from a new viewpoint. In this exhibition, the artists pay attention to endangered languages and their communities as its title indicates, or conversely, pose a question about the power of certain dominant languages and experiment with providing diverse languages with new statuses. In other words, it is an attempt to demonstrate there are specific forms, rhythms and voices in nonverbal communications. Accordingly, their works prove the existence of the speakers of such languages and their communities.