Untitled II

Untitled II is about my identity defined by language. Identities are often classified into categories such as name, sex, ethnicity, family history or educational status. Although they are also parts of myself as a member of society, I can't help thinking that my identities are trapped in the written words that lead us to have uniform patterns of attitudes and behaviors.

In this video, I throw up the paper strip with the words describing myself. The texts in this video are written in Korean that is my mother tongue, but it's not important for the viewers to understand what the texts actually mean. They won't be able to fully understand even if they speak in same language as me. I wanted to describe how language dominates the way of identifying ourselves through this performative action.