Map Project in Hwaseong

**Recipient of the 'Noteworthy Gaze' category at the 30th Dance Arts Awards**

Exhibition : 2nd, 3rd, 4th Nnovember 2023

(11:00 -18:00)

Performance : 4th November 2023 16:00

(Performance Duration time : 30 min)

Location: Hwaseong Manse Traditional Market place

Music : Yoonsang Choi

Cast : Gong won, Yoon - A Song , Bawarat,

Yeom na yeon, Doti Hueae

Exhibition Concept

Map Project in Hwaseong explores why women leave the places where they were born and choose to build new lives elsewhere.

Through interviews, observation, and artistic transformation, the project examines how migration shapes memory, identity, and belonging.

Listening

Over one year, I travelled to different regions to meet women in the places where they live.

I conducted and filmed in-depth interviews, creating a documentary archive of their personal stories, memories, and experiences of migration.

Observing

I looked beyond spoken narratives to the memories carried in the body—through language, songs, gestures, and dance.

These embodied memories reveal how movement between places shapes identity and everyday life.

Transforming

The interviews became the foundation for an artistic process.

Personal memories, movements, and habits were reinterpreted into new emotional and geographical maps.

Exhibition

The exhibition brings together:

Together, these works explore the relationship between migration, memory, the body, and place.

"I couldn't control the flowing tears"