The 1st VH AWARD: Sukjoon Jang “Flatcity”
The 1st VH AWARD: Sukjoon Jang “Flatcity”
The 1st VH AWARD: Sukjoon Jang “Flatcity”
The 1st VH AWARD: Sukjoon Jang “Flatcity”
About the Video
Finalist Sukjoon Jang’s Flatcity played with ideas of perception and place. Shot using a drone camera, the opening vista appears at first as a single aerial shot of an urban setting. Eventually, a grid emerges and the dozens of differing landscapes that have been sewn together become discreet as the camera zooms over barren parking lots and futuristic highrises, eventually settling on a small piece of land or a dark patch of highway. The sensation of so many moving elements is disorienting as one doubts their own eyes, but the effect is clear: as much as we build, there will always be space in between. By focusing on the small but still open spaces, Jang reminds viewers that limits are not always as they appear. Ends are also beginnings.
The 1st VH AWARD: Flatcity by Sukjoon Jang. Provided by HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP VH AWARD
About the Program
The VH AWARD supports emerging media artists who engage with the context of Asia through an online residency program and exhibitions of commissioned artworks across various global platforms. Initiated in 2016, the VH AWARD has been discovering and cultivating promising artists to share their artistic experiments and amplify their voices on diverse issues. The award encourages artists who push the boundaries of audiovisual artworks to reflect on how we understand ourselves and one another in relation to the past, present and future. To amplify and share their voices with broader communities, the artworks commissioned by the VH AWARD have been exhibited in partnership with various art institutions and platforms, including the Vision Hall of Hyundai Motor Group in Yongin, South Korea; the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara in Jakarta, Indonesia; the National Arts Council in Singapore; the House of Electronic Arts in Basel, Switzerland; and the Elektra Virtual Museum.