FLYING

In June 2000, after the Korean War, the first North-South summit took place. The film is edited from the TV sources recording the flights via Pyongyang, the airport and the streets of Pyongyang.

The video's soundtrack is taken from the beginning of Isang Yun's 1977 composition "Double Concerto," which was inspired by the myth of Gyeonu and Jiknyeo. According to the myth, the King of Heaven punishes the couple's lack of diligence by stranding one of them on a star in the west and the other on a star in the east. However, the couple succeeds in reuniting for one day a year, on July 7. Birds who take pity on them, built bridge across the Milky Way.  Isang Yun compared the myth to North-South relations. The encounter of Gyeonu and Jiknyeo symbolizes reunification. The distance between North and South is as far as the distance across the Milky Way. Yun, when he composed the piece, may have been imagining the infinite number of birds needed to build a bridge spanning the galaxy. Unable to return to his divided country, he died an exile -- in a newly reunified Germany, nonetheless. (Park Chan-kyong)

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2022 Checkpoint. Border Views from Korea, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

2016  Park Chan-kyong Solo Exhibition, Tina Kim Gallery, New york, United States.

2016  Short Film Program - Sound Spaces of Trauma, Art Basel 2016, Stadtkino Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2015-2016  Asia Time, 5th Guangzhou Triennial / 1st Asia Biennial, Goethe-Institut Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China

2011  Korean Rhapsody - Crossing the History, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2008  International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Competition Section

2005  Parallel Life, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

2005  Flying, Ssamzie Art Space, Seoul, Korea

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