J U N E _ P A K

  • Social Practice
    • NAME Project
    • Invisible Transformation Project
    • LOST___ (___찾습니다)
    • Invisible Labour
    • Paint Job
    • ConverSalon
  • PROJECTS
    • Observation 1
    • Tracing Memory
    • Glitch: 1998-2018
    • June on June
    • retelling
    • IPO: Time-Place-Trace
    • somewhere
    • disclaimer
    • I Am Nothing Without You
    • I'm sorry (I can only give you three seconds)
    • June on June
    • walkthrough
    • Do You?
    • in order to be
    • moving stills
    • double
    • dic'tion-airy
  • ABOUT
  • Press
  • CONTACT
  • Social Practice
    • NAME Project
    • Invisible Transformation Project
    • LOST___ (___찾습니다)
    • Invisible Labour
    • Paint Job
    • ConverSalon
  • PROJECTS
    • Observation 1
    • Tracing Memory
    • Glitch: 1998-2018
    • June on June
    • retelling
    • IPO: Time-Place-Trace
    • somewhere
    • disclaimer
    • I Am Nothing Without You
    • I'm sorry (I can only give you three seconds)
    • June on June
    • walkthrough
    • Do You?
    • in order to be
    • moving stills
    • double
    • dic'tion-airy
  • ABOUT
  • Press
  • CONTACT

The Invisible Transformation Project (ITP), on-going

Performative act at various locations,  Artist book (ed. 300), Video
The Invisible Transformation Project (ITP) is a simple act of painting a white wall yellow then painting it back to the original white. To those who did not see the process, the existence of the yellow paint underneath and the amount of laborious hours are unknown. The fact that the yellow wall is now invisible is the point of departure; the yellow is hidden but the wall is permanently marked by the yellow paint. The erased and invisible yellow layer is the key element of the work for being the cause of the wall’s transformation.

Invisible Transformation Project (ITP)는 흰색 벽을 노란색으로 칠한 다음, 다시 흰색으로 칠하는 간단한 작업이다. 그 과정을 보지 못한 사람들은 노란색 페인트의 존재와 긴 시간의 노동을 알 수 없지만, 보이지 않는 노란색 벽의 존재를 인식할 때가 이 작품의 출발지점이다. 노란색은 흰색으로 지워지고 보이지 않지만 이 노란색 페인트는 벽에 영구적으로 남아있고 벽을 변화시킨 원인이되는 작업의 핵심 요소이다.

ITP is now a permanent part of the following locations:
ITP 는 아래 공간에 영구적으로 남아있다:

the Special Projects Gallery, York University, Toronto, CA
the 26, a domestic viewing space, 26 MacKenzie Cres., Toronto, CA
artspace SAY, Mullae Artist Village, Seoul, KR


I was invited to present the ITP at the Artistic Research Conference in Stockholm in October 2020. But due to the COVD-19 pandemic, I had to re-imagine my durational performance work as an online viewable version. This 15 min. video was presented via Zoom for the Alliances & Commonalities Artistic Research Conference, organized by Stockholm University of the Arts. One of the points brought forward during the panel discussion after viewing the video was particularly interesting; "violence of the whiteness", referring to the white screen that the participants had to stare at until the yellow colour begins to sip in. I recommend you to watch the video below on the full screen.

2020 년 10 월 스톡홀름에서 열린 예술 리서치 (Artistic Reserach) 컨퍼런스에서 ITP를 발표하도록 초대 받았지만, COVD-19 유행병으로 인해 이 듀레이션 작업을 온라인으로 볼 수있는 버전으로 다시 상상해야했다. 이 15 분짜리 비디오는 Stockholm University of the Arts 에서 주최 한 Alliances & Commonalities Artistic Research Conference 동안 Zoom을 통해 발표되었다. 비디오를 본 후 패널 토론에서 한 참가자가 흥미로운 점을 지적했다. 노란색이 보이기 시작할 때까지 응시해야했던 흰색 화면을 "하얀색의 폭력”이라 했다. 같은 경험을 원한다면 아래 동영상을 풀 화면으로 시청할것을 추천한다.
PRESENTATION VENUS:
  • Presented at Artistic Research Conference, Alliances & Commonalities, Stockholm University of the Arts.
  • Colour Theory: The visible and invisible, artspace SAY, Mullae Artist Village, Seoul, KR. May 10-24, 2019 (view exhibition)
  • "The Invisible Transformation Project", Public: Art | Culture | Ideas, 51: Colour (Summer 2015), ed. by Christine Davis and Scott Lyall with contributing editor Aleksandra Kaminska, p. 215-217
  • Conference paper presentation: "Visibility | Ethnicity | Identity: Studying through 'The Invisible Transformation Project' and 'Paint Job'", Canada, Place, Space, and the Politics of Identity, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, Toronto, CA. 2014
  • 26, viewing space, Toronto, 2014
  • CONVERsalon V. 8, organized by Jorge Lozano: ITP documentation presentation and conversation on The Mode of Ethnic Visibility in Artworks, Toronto, 2014
  • Special Projects Gallery, York University, 2013
© June Pak
Artist would like to acknowledge the financial support of the following institutions for her projects:
Picture
Picture
Picture