공터는 아직은 쓸모 없는 공간이다. 공식적으로 어떠한 편의도 제공하지 않는다. 아무것도 하지 않는 것처럼 보이는 공터는 언제나 쓸모 있음을 증명해야 하는 도시의 법칙을 지연시키고, 그렇기 때문에 주목 받기 보다는 쉽게 지나치게 된다. 그러나 밤이 되고 어둠이 찾아 든 공터는 은밀하고 때론 위험해 보이는 공간을 생산한다. 그 곳은 열려있는 듯 보이지만 동시에 수비태세를 갖춘 듯이 보인다. 그 곳에 진입하는 사람들은 어떤 면에서 공터가 제공하는 어떤 심리적 상태-비밀들을 털어놓아야 할 듯한-, 그것을 위하여 기꺼이 발을 들인다. 이때의 예민함은 공터가 제공하는 비가시적인 경계를 넘어설 때의 그것이며, 공터의 조건과도 연결된다.
파트타임 스위트의 2번째 전시
이 곳은 밤 시간에만 일시적으로 전시공간이 되며, 낮에는 공터 그 자체로 방치된다.
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An unoccupied plot of land is a space that still has no use. Officially, it provides no service. Such land, where nothing is being done, causes delays in a city where the rules dictate that everything must prove its own utility. For this reason we just pass by it instead of paying attention. Such land, however, constitutes a secret, sometimes dangerous, space when night falls. It appears at once open and chary. The atmosphere of the plot seems to urge your secrets to be revealed – a state of mind willingly sought by those who enter it. When they cross the invisible border of the plot, a kind of acute sensitivity is generated, also related to the unoccupied state of the plot.
Part-time Suite’s second exhibition, off-off-stage, is held on an unoccupied plot right in the heart of Seoul. The plot is certainly unoccupied. In spite of its small size, it has multiple proprietors and no certain future development plan. It is divided by a wall from another vacant lot which is now a private property. Here, we draw a hanging screen, making the space into a stage that reminds us of other unoccupied plots hidden at various locations in the City. Viewers visiting the stage, isolated from external sounds, will become impromptu performers, sauntering around the plot without a purpose. These performers will cast light on the silent plot, recalling the manner in which a place of no use exists. They will also witness the other vacant lot, over the wall, which remains unoccupied physically but has lost its character through being owned by someone and becoming included in a specific area.
The plot will only become an exhibition space temporarily, at night; during the daytime it will be left as it is, unoccupied.