TEXTUAL COLLECTIVE, SEOUL

The image of the city is also found in texts. Various texts in old and new media like proverbs, slogans, titles of films and TV dramas, poems, songs, and even modern-day slang hold its own time, memories, experiences, desires, and culture. They also reflect sentiments of the individual and the collective city. Some of these texts are long and detailed descriptions, some short and musical or even magical, conjuring up forgotten memories. These endless words, phrases and sentences from different times and places are collected to form a wide wall. And while some texts are shared by the masses, others are rare and foreign, likely to spark the viewer’s curiosity. Finally with the visitors’ sensual interaction the texts come alive to tell different collective stories.