Insa Art Space Archive Talk Programme 5PM 2007, are founded on discussions stemming from artworks based on a form of tracing through photographic archives. Earlier this year in May, artist Nurri Kim told her stories about her photographic series depicting the use of construction tent in the city environment called Tokyo Blues, as well as her background and experiences of working in the New York Public Library as a digital archivist.

The second invited artist of the programme, Che Onejoon, is an artist who has been interested in and hasphotographed concealed and hidden places that become naturally forgotten naturally due to societal or political changes. The artist has presented work that build up a narrative through archival photographs. The subjects in these archival photographs are non-allocated places, including the photographs of an actual mobile polices living quarters through which he depicted the characteristics of a closed or no longer functioning spaces. In his other project, he recorded the Miari red-light district that underwent changes during the time of enforcement of prevention laws against sex trafficking, called Texas Project. In the Colatheque Series, he documented a specific place called Colatheques discotheques made for teens that somehow converted to dancing halls for the middle aged.

The work introduced now is new work, titled Unfinished Project_Island. The island of Yeouido, visited by the artist in his boyhood to ride bicycles or to attend some unmemorable event is remembered as a place densely packed with apartments and plazas. The island is also filled with wounded memories such as the Armed Forces Day events. In 2005, the artist is led back to the island by a random encounter withan article that describes the discovery of the Yeouido underground bunkers. The artist begins to document the minimum information at this site where the past has been deleted. Due to some unidentified reason, these closed underground bunkers are at once revealed and the change in the use of the bunkers are planned to recreate the sites as a resting area for the public. However, an ironic change is made upon this secretive location; a bus transfer station where countless number of people come and go is constructed and the former significance of this place is lost. Looking back at the scenery of Yeouido, an unfinished section of modernization is revealed. Che Onejoons work records hidden spaces and by showing and intensively collecting these hidden spaces, his work acts as a refresher by pointing out those that go amiss from the every day gaze.

area for the public. However, upon this secretive space an ironic change is made; a bus transfer station where countless number of people comes and goes is constructed and the former significance is stripped of its colour. Looking back at scenery of Yeouido, an unfinished section of the modernization is shown. Che Onejoons work documents hidden spaces and by showing and intensively collecting these hidden spaces, his work act as a refresher by pointing out those that diverge from the every day gaze.

In this talk, the artist plans to discuss the conditions created in the narrative through the processes of collection, selection and organization of the subject.