Act Zero Noji
Soil & Water: Kigali Crossing
Film
2021
Artist: Bang & Lee
Project Manager: Misun Seo
Cinematography & Photography: Walk Cinema (aka. Jemi Chang), SEE°C Film
Launch Event Support: Seogwipo City Center for Cities of Culture
AD Scriptwriter: Sooyeon Seo
Voice Artist: Hyunjoo Lee
Act Zero Noji Audio Description (2021) was produced with the support by the Korea Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Art Council Korea’s 2022 Online Media Art Activity Support Project. For the Soil & Water: Kigali Crossing the work is presented in collaboration with Nathalie Boseul Shin, Chief Curator of the Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.
ActZero Noji is a site-specific installation and film by Bang & Lee, developed on the coast of Jeju Island, South Korea. As the first act of their ongoing ActZero project, the work explores climate action through an encounter between human-made structures and natural processes. The artists created fragile architectural forms using 3D-printed ceramic models made from locally sourced white clay and placed them in the intertidal zone, where they are gradually eroded, collapsed and washed away by the tide. The resulting process is documented on film, turning the disappearance of the structures into an integral part of the work. Through the interplay of digital technology, architecture, landscape and the forces of nature, ActZero Noji reflects on environmental change, impermanence and the vulnerability of human-built environments.
Bang & Lee (KR)
Bang & Lee is a Seoul-based Korean artist duo consisting of Jayoung Bang and Yunjun Lee, who have been working together since 2006. Their practice explores the relationship between technology, communication, collaboration and collective memory, often through absurdity, contradiction, and fictional or historical narratives. More recently, they have focused explicitly on the climate crisis and the role of art in responding to ecological and social challenges. They have exhibited internationally at institutions including ZKM Karlsruhe, MAXXI Rome, La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille, the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Seoul Museum of Art, and Nam June Paik Art Center.
