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'Binaida Project: Moving Star Scene' is a 'local art project' that performs art on the bridges and streets of the commercial district with exhibitions displayed in empty spaces of the new town. The artists who participate in the project teleport their things by crossing their own portals in the designated idle space of this still new smelling town. They are given the role of shamans, wishing the well-being of the uncontrolled unused space of the new town, this space with no assigned function or purpose, and foreseeing their future.

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 New cities are being developed to disperse urban functions of large cities, reduce population density and expand housing supply. But even in this planned movements for development, some eventually converge to areas of non-specificity. For example, there are many places in the new city where space and cultural flow are declining due to partial slum and unstable business, which can be seen as the paradigm of the old city beyond the urban planning. This phenomenon also reminds us of the incomprehensible sense of fragmentation in contemporary life in the new town. Perhaps this is due to the dilemma of erasing the past and following the formalized indicators of new town development, which were consumed only by physical location.

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 The generation of idle space in the new city is in the same context as the change process of the big city. Due to the development of new towns, idle spaces occur in existing urban areas, and new towns face potential slums due to commercial areas that are not fully activated at the same time as development. Idle spaces generated at this time are materials that can generate cultural regeneration of the city in art, and are still subject to demolition due to development.

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Paradoxically, abstract spaces, such as new cities, tend to be created by removing physical and cultural differences from existing centers. The continued development of IT has promoted globalization and strengthened the indiscrimination and deindividuation of places, which has lost its newness. As the capital of the city grows, the space is abstracted, homogenized, and mass-produced to create shells without any cultural grains, reinforcing the sense of loss, as if on a set floor just built for filming. New towns are threatening because they are fluid, fast paced and directionless. They    are always filled with stress and nostalgia with the energy of leap.

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 In addition, in urban development, preservation and development seem to be planned in a balanced manner, but we have experienced a lot of situations where some power intervened and unequal distribution took place. Be aware that this will continue in the future.

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 Some institutions formalize the identity of the project to fit the framework of the institution already in place without considering specificity. Sometimes they are asked to represent a common identity. Local art projects are likely to be read in a commercial and compromised form because of the power of constraints such as the identity and ideology of regions and institutions. Also, these local community exhibitions and exhibitions that utilize idle spaces are already familiar and, except for the region, do not seem to have any special distinction between them. There is already a danger that locals can create an identity among the collaborators gathered. However, the recent outflow of research data aimed at creating new values ​​and indigenous cultures in the region can be seen as the result of efforts not to repeat such failures.

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The artists too suspend their judgment on this anxiety and continue to practice their art. The institutional sphere of the art world is complex to young artists who are called The Youth, and the dense residential environment and the rising of the house prices is as complex as their feeling. After the dust is removed, they may in fact have nothing to do, but they will make the same alternative to build a rare new city with their own hands.

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 This project is an undefined cultural development stage experimenting on how art works in new towns, by using shamanistic elements as a medium to explore the possibility of collaboration with the region. Using virtual layers and magical devices, we pray for the community and ponder the problems of place-specific art. Therefore, we will focus on cultural ecology that is not based on the physical foundation of the new city, but look directly at the deficiencies that it causes, try the possibilities that art can do in this new town and try to resolve some of those deficiencies. When entering the new city, you will pass through green belts like plain fields during a car road. At this time, the sense of speed makes it possible to imagine going through another hole to another dimension and recognizes the division of regions. This exhibition displaces the streets of a new city into a realistic fictional layer with multiple portals, occupies them in the language of visual arts and considers the context. It is a shamanistic device that illuminates the clean and somewhat empty and fantastic space of the new town that seems to be being turned upside down in the name of development. The 'Binaida Project' is based on the phenomenological field to look at the idle spaces of new cities and to grasp the cultural ecosystem.

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 Exhibition Period: Wednesday, September 4, 2019-Friday, September 13, 2019

 Exhibition Place: 103, 946-2, Byeolnae-dong, Namyangju-si, Gyeonggi-do

 Opening Hours: 12:00 – 18:00 (Closed on Mondays)

 Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 6pm

 

 

 * Project-related events (You can watch the performance with the works installed in the public space.)

 Date: September 4, 2019 / September 7, 2019 (2 times)

 Time: 19: 30-21: 00 (90 minutes)

 Venue: 4 places of shelter at the lava riverside of Byeonnae-dong, 5 bridges of lava river, undefined bottom

 

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 Participating Artists: Kim Da-hye, Munjo, Park Soo-hyun, Lee Jung-min, Observer, Jung Mi-ta

 Planning: Lim Hyun-jung, Jung Mi-ta

 Editorial design: Won Nari

 Written by Lim Hyun-jung, Yun-sun Jung, English version proofread by Ruddy Autem

 

 Venue: Café Street

 Collaboration: Byeonnae-dong Community

 Sponsored by: Gyeonggi-do, Gyeonggi Foundation

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