[Jeju Update] Photos Fwd: Arts against the Jeju naval base plan in the Gangjeong village 강정 마을 제주 해군 기지 계획에 반대하는 예술 전시회

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While an artist Park Kyung-Hoon has done his art exhibition in the old hangar sites of the Altteure Japanese Air field, reminding the dark history of the Jeju's colonial period (click HERE), another artists in the Jeju Island have been also working to save the nature and history of the Gangjeong village, Jeju Island, with their art works against the naval base plan. Some of them are as the below. Click the images for larger view.
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1. An installation exhibition at the Joongduk coast(Nov. 21 to 31, 2010)

The Tamna Association of the Artists opened its peace art exhibition in the Joonduk coast, a naval base planned area, at 3pm. last Nov. 21, 2010. The peace art exhibition, titled, ‘Mom and Sister, Let’s Live in Gangjeong’ shows many installation art works in various sites of there until Nov. 31. Some of the names of the artists are: Go Gil-Chun, Yang Mi-Kyung, Go Min-Suk, Jung Yong-Sung, Oh Suk-Hoon, Go Gyung-Hwa, Song Maeng-Suk, Kim Young-Hoon.(written by Kim Kyung-Duk, Seogwipo Newspaper, in the below link: Translated)
(* The word, Tamna comes from the old name of the Jeju Island. For more on it, click HERE)

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(1) Image source: Kim Kyung-Duk, Seogwipo Daily Newspaper, Nov. 22, 2010. Too see more photos, click HERE 김경덕 기자, 서귀포 일간 신문, 2010년 11월 22일

The red satiric letters in a circle read:

‘Warning:
This area is a military area where the navy has illegally occupied.
In case of trespassing without permission, the navy will arrest you,
whether you are male, female, old, young or tourist.

Unit Commander, Navy 1818’

An artist drew some faces of the Gangjeong villagers.

The letters read:
‘I need your hypocrisy and blood.'

The while cloth meandering the lava molten rocks symbolizes the underwater sprung from the beneath of the Jeju Island. The Gangjeong village has been long time proud of its abundant clean water that has made possible of all the creatures living there and of the village's rich harvest, as the two letters of its name 'Gang' and 'Jeong' both mean water. If the naval base construction is driven with its first part, concrete will be poured over all these beautiful rocks and sea off the coast, killing all the endangered species there.

The exhibition site has been filled with many beautiful scenes of the Gangjeong village and its sea. The solidarity messages from the Koreans and internationals have also been displayed in the small wood panels hanging from the ceiling of this makeshift tent.
The visitors can sign to oppose the ROK and Island governments’ naval base plan here

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(2) Photos of art works and working artists, thankfully provided by Mr. Go Gwon-Il, Gangjeong village, Nov. 22, 2010.

The red letters read: ‘The beautiful Jeju’
A satire of an imagined horrible situation if the naval base that would eventually kill all the creatures here, is built.

Artists worked on the installations of art works.

Artists worked on the installations of art works.

A porcelain facing sea and the Beom Island where endangered species(click) live underneath.

People’s wish of no naval base

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2. An exhibition of illustrated poems (Nov. 10 to 20, 2010)

: Many poets in the Jeju Island provided their poems with illustration.

* Photos of art works and poets, thankfully provided by Mr. Go Gwon-Il, Gangjeong village, Nov. 22, 2010

The blue water of the Il-Gangjeong
by Kim Soon-Nam

Crossing and crossing over
Ridges and furrows rolling with wind,
An Island
Having laid its body
In the lowest place
Of the world,

A Mother’s sea
Loaded with the Sun and Moon,
With a bomal* and an obunjak* playing house
And a red-feet crab playing hide-and-seek behind them

A sea
With the tears of its bare skin,
Dwelled among its splendid things,
Poignantly shifting

A yellow legume flower
Being burst of its thread veins
By its own petal thoughtlessly blossoming,
A Sotae* bearing a wind of knife,
They say my blue persistence should be suppressed.
They say the school of the sweet fishes bearing beautiful spawn
In the clean water of the Gangjeong stream
Is the object to be suppressed.
They say it should be suppressed.

(translated)

* Bomal and Obunjak are the names of the shells, in Korean.
Those are peculiar in the southern sea of Korea, including the Jeju island.

* Sotdae is one of the Korean traditional cultural objects. Built of long and thin tree branches and standing in key areas of the village and other places, it is believed to protect the areas from evils.

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3. Exhibition of art works by Go Gyung Hwa ( Oct. 8 to Nov. 9, 2010)

Go Gyung-Hwa, a woman artist in the Jeju has worked on the Joongduk Sea and its coast where the naval base was planned. With her sensitive seeing and delicate touch, even the textures of the rocks are expressed in her drawings. She uses the method of rubbing and copying the textures of the rocks there. Thanks to her, we remind hundred million years of the lives of the rocks, here.

* Photos of art works and exhibition site, thankfully provided by Mr. Go Gwon-Il, Gangjeong village, Nov. 22, 2010