![](https://www.acc-exhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/리슨투더시티-거리의-질감-2023-단채널-영상-컬러-사운드-12분.-한국어-수어-영어-자막-국립아시아문화전당-제작지원.-작가-제공.jpg)
2023 ACC CONTEXT Walking, Wandering
Listen to the City
![](https://www.acc-exhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/리슨투더시티-거리의-질감-2023-단채널-영상-컬러-사운드-12분.-한국어-수어-영어-자막-국립아시아문화전당-제작지원.-작가-제공.jpg)
〈Texture of Street〉, 2023.
Single-channel video, color, sound, approx. 15min.
Director Listen to the City
Cinematographer and Editor Kyungman Kim
Music Maalib
Commissioned by Asia Culture Center.
Listen to the City is an art, urbanism, and research collective that started in 2009. The collective comprises urban researchers, designers, architects, filmmakers, and activists. The director of the team, Eunseon Park, studied art and urban planning, and Hyunwook is an activist who has been involved in educational and urban movements.
Listen to the City began its creative activities by asking questions regarding environmental and social irresponsibility and the destruction of cultural diversity—problems linked to the excessive development of Korea.
For this exhibition, Listen to the City made a video which questions the city that has been built in the perspective of the non-disabled. The film shows that the city’s roads and alleys focus only on improving the efficiency of healthy non-disabled people, rather than being spaces that value all members of the society. Korean society tells us to be fast, free of mistakes, and economically successful. Formal education systems teach that life that is lived slowly and differently from the norm means falling behind. There is no time for those who are sick or slow in the urban spaces that reflect the “survival of the fittest” values which Korean people pursue. And within this system, some people act as if it were just to detest life that is lived at a different speed.
Listen to the City conducted an interview in 2017 with Kim 00, a 34-year-old woman with a physical disability, while producing a film that interviewed disabled people who suffered from the Pohang earthquake. She could only walk with the help of an assistive device called a walker. During the interview, she said she had never taken a train and has never left Pohang. And she added, “You need to see things in order to feel and think about things.” Listening to her story inevitably led to asking her about her perceptions of urban space, and to think about the privileges that non-disabled people have. Through the film, the attempt is to talk about roads and alleys as spaces that capture various times and values.
Also presented together will be previous works and research which became the starting point of this work, such as posters, manuals, websites, and videos visualizing the disaster evacuation methods for the disabled.
![](https://www.acc-exhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/강동주_유동-아주-밝고-아주-어두운.jpg)
Dongju Kang
〈Fluctuations, Brightness in the Darkness〉, 2023.
![](https://www.acc-exhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/김방주-그-누구의-것도-아니다-그날-까마귀가-떨어트린-2023-퍼포먼스-설치-OSB합판-캐스터-텍스트-가변크기.-국립아시아문화전당-제작지원.-작가-제공.jpg)
Bangjoo Kim
〈Belong to No One Else: Dropped by A Crow 〉, 2023.
![](https://www.acc-exhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/김재민이-레이온-공장-달리기-2023-아카이브-단채널-영상-컬러-사운드-가변크기.-국립아시아문화전당-제작지원.-작가-제공.jpg)
Gemini Kim
〈Invisible Factory Run Project- Rayon Plant Run〉, 2023.
![](https://www.acc-exhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/pic01.jpg)
Leung Chi Wo + Sara Wong
〈Young Girl Bending Her Arms〉, 2014.
〈Man With A Hat In A Long Gown〉, 2014.
〈Office Lady With A Red Umbrella〉, 2010.
〈Kid Running With A Chair〉, 2014.
〈Man in Suit Rubbing the Back of His Neck〉, 2018.
〈Japanese Housewife Scratching Her Back〉, 2010.
〈The Woman Carrying Rubber Basin On Her Head 〉, 2023.
![](https://www.acc-exhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/main.jpg)
Regina José Galindo
〈Who Can Erase the Traces? (¿Quién puede borrar las huellas?)〉, 2003.
〈Rivers of People (Ríos de Gente)〉, 2021-2022.
〈The Earth Does Not Hide The Death (La Tierra No Esconde Los Muertos)〉, 2023.
![](https://www.acc-exhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/리슨투더시티-거리의-질감-2023-단채널-영상-컬러-사운드-12분.-한국어-수어-영어-자막-국립아시아문화전당-제작지원.-작가-제공.jpg)
Listen to the City
〈Texture of Street〉, 2023.
![](https://www.acc-exhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/리-카이-청-저-너머-텅-빈-땅.png)
Lee Kai Chung
〈The Shadow Lands Yonder (虛無鄉遠)〉, 2022.
〈As Below, So Above (地上地下)〉, 2023.
![](https://www.acc-exhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/마리나-아브라모비치-The-Lovers-The-Great-Wall-Walk-1988.-2채널-비디오.-15분-41초.-LiMA-작가-제공.jpg)
Marina Abramović / Ulay
〈The Lovers, The Great Wall Walk〉, 1988/2010.
![](https://www.acc-exhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/미라-리즈키-쿠르니아_발자취를-쫓다.jpg)
Mira Rizki Kurnia
〈Napak Tilas (Traceback)〉, 2023.
![](https://www.acc-exhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/이창운_공간지도.jpg)
Changwoon Lee
〈Phenomenon Map〉, 2023.
![](https://www.acc-exhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/프란시스-알리스-Paradox-of-Praxis-1-Sometimes-Making-Something-Leads-to-Nothing-1997-Mexico-City-video-5-minutes-9-1.jpg)
Francis Alÿs
〈Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing)〉, 1997.
〈Paradox of Praxis 5: Sometimes we dream as we live & sometimes we live as we dream 〉, 2013 .
〈Border Barriers Typology: Cases #1 to #23〉, 2019-2021.
![](https://www.acc-exhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/글자를-입은-소리들이-모인-지도-2023-인터랙티브-프로젝션-매핑-컬러-무음-가변크기.-국립아시아문화전당-제작지원.-작가-제공.jpg)
Goeun Park
〈A Map of Written Sound 〉, 2023.
![](https://www.acc-exhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/새로운-질서-그-후-둘러보기-2023-12채널-영상-컬러-무음.-국립아시아문화전당-제작지원.-작가-제공.jpg)
After New Order
〈After City〉, 2023.
〈Browsing〉, 2023.