Appendix 1.
The directory of Ung-Nyeo’s Cave, The Body That Hums on the location
As this is both interactive and performative, the project remains transformable at every second, as there is no boundary or limit on the location and content. We prepared a directory kit or a tool box that can usher the public to wander, explore and create their own feeling-thinking weaving together with and through in this land where Ung-Nyeo had a temporary soft landing. Throughout this thesis, as a mode of art treatise, Deleuze’s Abécédaire (ABCD) became a primer for the idea of this toolbox or the part of environment. They were handed out on the location, and entitled “Abécédaire – Ganadara,” to help participants engage and perform better in their own way with and through the “environment” of Ung-Nyeo’s land: the cave, the material, the water, and the weather.
A-Z Directory / 가나다라
A is Animation. Go into Ung-Nyeo’s Cave!
B is Breast. It is a magic box. Find all kinds of materials to revive Ung-Nyeo. You can even find some snacks in her body!
C is Cave. Cinema is playing in Ungnyeo’s cave/body.
D is Do It Yourself. Find all kinds of materials in Ung-Nyeo’s body and the land around her. Make. Use your creativity and express yourself in your own way to create and reshape Ung-nyeo.
E is experience. In the making and gathering in Ung-Nyeo’s land, you may find your own language and unique expression.
F is flower. Ung-Nyeo likes flowers. Where are the flowers?
G is Guide. If you have any question, please don’t hesitate to ask us, you’re your neighbours. All help one another in Ung-Nyeo’s land.
H is History. An unfinished book is placed on an empty chair. The book begins with the story of women in Korea. It also becomes the collective voice of women, known and unknown, which expands to be personalized with your contributions. Feel free to compose, write and leave your thoughts, comments, poem, or stories in the book.
I is Imagine Land. Ung-Neyo’s Cave is happy to land temporarily on the Imagined Land in Monkland, NDG, Montreal. What and how is your imagined land?
J is Joy. Tra-la-la~~Joy is what ‘Ung-Nyeo’s Cave, the body that hums is all about!
K is Kid-friendly. All ages and genders are welcome. All activities are kid-friendly. However, we would appreciate cooperation in caring and attentive love of children. There are items that may be dangerous for kids: sewing machines, needles, and scissors. Parental guidance is necessary.
L is Love. Experience again mother nature’s, unceasing, perpetual and unconditional love for all.
M is Materials. All materials are at your disposal! Find materials in Ung-Nyeo’s body and land. Make something you like by gluing, stitching, stapling, clipping, patching… unlimited activities. Just imagine and be creative!
N is Name. What is your name? Ung-Nyeo wants to know and remember you. Leave your name on the front and back cover pages in the book of everyone’s story. Your name is part of our collective art book that will be added to our continuing history.
O is Object. All objects and recycled materials of our daily life are part of and revived in Ung-Nyeo’s body and land. The recycling and reshaping of Ung-Nyeo’s body resonates with our own and mother nature’s continuous change and adaptation.
P is Paw. Her paws are to hold you in her loving embrace to rest and be safe. Sit on the cushions.
Q is Quilt, and Quebec, which is also a Quilt. Ung-Nyeo loves sewing, especially the experience of spending time when sewing together, Ung-Nyeo also likes it when people sew together around her. Quilting and quilts become her skin. You are invited to sew pieces of sewing fabric or any material to decorate and make her skin and body. Make this your artwork!
R is Rest. Tired? Escape the sunlight, wind, rain and hail. Go into the cave and rest.
S is Story. Ung-Nyeo is a collection of stories of the everyday that are told and retold. She ravels and unravels a thousand threads, weaving and unweaving one with another. She waits for yours to arrive.
T is Threshold. An empty chair invites you to sit and open a book to read. The book is unfinished. The story is about women in the past, the present and the future. It is also a threshold inbetween one thought and a new one. At the threshold, ungraspable feelings and thoughts are dancing and weaving throughout this book.
U is Ung-Nyeo. The female bear is a mythical figure from Korean folk culture who desired to be a human. To do so, God told her to stay in a cave while eating only garlic and drinking water. She became the human, the predecessor of humanity! The power of this fable is tied to the absence of violence or conflict. To become someone or something, one must give oneself up and wait, enduring a transformation which turns out to never be complete.
V is Value. Ung-Nyeo signals us to revisit our values, the real meaning that might be forgotten and missing in our time.
W is Water. The body is made of water: the brain and heart are composed of 73% water, the lungs are about 83% water. The skin contains 64% water, muscles and kidneys are 79%, the bones are watery: 31%. Ung-Nyeo lived and transformed herself into a human in the cave. One of the requirements was water, the essence of life. Feel free to drink a scoop of fresh water from the Korean-style earthenware crock. Please, keep the water clean and care for others.
X is X. Please be gentle. Ung-Nyeo is life in that she feels, thinks and responds by sound, wind, sunlight and through your creative interaction with her. Please give her care, express and interact with her gently.
Y is You. Snacks and juices are everywhere on her land, a treasure for you to find!
Z is Zig Zag. Well, we return to A. This is the story of A-Z, which is like a Möbius strip that has no ending therefore no beginning.
Appendix 2.
Moving Image 