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The National Theater

Single channel video

13min 

color/sound

2004 

Still Cut  The National Heater

This work deals with a tragic unsolved mysterious incident took place in the recent Korean history on the super-power women figure of  Yuk Yeong-su in 1970’s. Yuk Yeong-su,  wife of  the Korea’s fifth former president/dictator Park Jung-hee, was assassinated by an unidentified man during the national ceremony held at The National Theater to celebrate the Independence Day of Korea In 1974. This suspicious incident has been still unsolved.
In my performance, I played the role as the president’s wife Yuk Yeong-su, and revived at the dramatic moment of shooting and falling by repeating it 18 times.

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