1.์ข์ง ์์ ๋๋ด
์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ ๋ฑ๋ฑ ๋ง์๋จ์ด์ง์ง ์๋๋ค. ์ฟ ํก(Kupang)์ ๊ฐ๋ค๊ณ ํ์๋ ๋ด ์ฃผ๋ณ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ํ๋๊ฐ์ด ์ผ๋ฆํ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง์๋ค. ‘์ผํ๋ฌ?’ ํ๊ตญํ ์๋ง์กด ๊ฐ์ ํ์ฌ ์ฟ ํก์์ ์ผํ๋ค๋ ๊ฑด ํ๊ตญ์์๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ๋ชธ ํ๋๋ก ์ข๋ค๊ณ ํ ์ ์๋ ํ๊ฒฝ์์ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ ๋๋ฅด๋ ์ผ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๋ ค์ ธ ์๋ค. ์ข ์ข ์ด์ฌ๋ณ์ด๋ ๊ณผ๋ก๋ก ์ฌ๋์ด ์ฃฝ๋ ๋ด์ค๊ฐ ๋์ค๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ณ ๋ฐ๋์ ์ ๋ฒํฐ์ง ๋ชปํด ๋๋ง๊ฐ๋ค๋ ๊ณ ๋ฐฑ๋ด์ด ๋์ณ๋๋ค. ํํธ ์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ์ถ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์ฃผ์ ์ผ์ ์ ๊ทธ ์ด๋ฆ ๋๋ฌธ์ ํ๊ตญ์์ ์กฐ์ฌํ๋ฉด์ ์ฃผ์์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ํ๊ตญ์ด ์ด๋ฆ, ์ฃผ์์ผ๋ก ์ฝํ๋ ๋ฐ์๊ณผ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ ํ์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ฉฐ ํ์ ํ์ํ๊ณ ๋ผํด ์ด๋ฆ์ ์ง๋ช ์ธ ์ ์๊ฐํ๊ณค ํ๋ค. ๋์ค์ ์ฟ ํก์ ์๋ณด๋ ์ฑ ํ์(Juan) ์ฑ๋น๋ ๋ ์๊ณ Juan์ ํํ ์ด๋ฆ์ด์๋ค. ์ ํ ๊ด๋ จ์ ์๋ค.
๋๋ ์ธ์ฒ์ ์ฃผ์ ์ผ์ ์ ์ค์ ๋ก ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์๋ค. 1907๋
์์๋ ์ฃผ์์์ ์์ํ ์ผ์ ์ ์ธ๊ทผ ์ง์ญ์ผ๋ก ํผ์ ธ๋๊ฐ ์ฝ 1000ha ์ ์ด๋ฅด๋ ๊ณ ์ด ์ง์ญ์ 1960๋
๋๋ถํฐ ์์ํ ๊ณต์
๋จ์ง๋ก ํ๋ฐ๊ฟ ํ๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ณธ ์ฃผ์์ ์ํ์ด ์๋ฉ ์์ฌ์๊ณ ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ค๋ฃจ๋ ๊ณต์ฅ์ด ๋ง์ ๊ณณ์ด์๋ค. 80๋
๋ ์ธ์ฒ์ ์ถ์ ๋๋ ํํํ๊ฒ ๊ธฐ์ตํ๋ค. ์๋ฏผ์ง ์์ ์์๋ ์ด ๋๋ค ์ธ์ ๋ฌผ์ ์์์ ์ฑ์ทจ๋ ์์ธ์ ์ถ์ ์ด์ฐ์ ์ง ์ด ๋๋ค๋ฅผ ํ์ํ๊ธฐ ๋ง๋ค์ง๋ ์์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋ค.
Kupang์์ ์กฐ์ฑ์ค์ธ ๊ณต์
์ผ์ ์ ์ธ์ฒ์ ์์๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์ผ์ ํฌ๊ธฐ์ ํฉ์ ๋๋ 1500ha ์ด์์ผ๋ก ์ถ์ธก๋๋ค. ์ ์์์ค ๋ฌธ์ ๋ก ์ผ์ ์ฑ์ทจ๋ ๋ฉ์ถฐ์ง ๋ฏ ๋ณด์๊ณ , ๋๋ค ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์์ ์ผ์ ์๋ก์์ ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ก๊ณ ์์๋ค. ์ธ๊ทผ ๊ณต์
๋จ์ง ํ๋ณด์ง์ธ Lifuleo์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ก๋ก๋ก๋ ๋์๊ฐ ๋๊ฒ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ๋ค๊ณ ํ๊ณ , ๋ฐฐ๋ก ์ด์ด์ ธ์ผ ํ์ง๋ง ์ธ์ ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ง์ง ์๋๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๋ฉ์ถฐ์ง์ง๋ ๋๊ณ ๋ด์ผ ์๊ฒ ๋ค. ๊ณต์
๋จ์ง๋ ์์ง๊น์ง๋ ํ๋ ฅ๋ฐ์ ์ ํ๋๋ง ์๊ณ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์์ค์ ์๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ ๋ ์ ๋ฆ์ฌ์ง ๋๋ก์์๋ ๋๋ค ์ฒญ๋
๋ค์ด ์คํ ๋ฐ์ด ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋๋ฐ์ ํ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
๋ค๋์์ ๋ํฐ๋ชจ๋ฅด ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์์ ์ก์ฒด๋
ธ๋์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๋ ค์คฌ๋ค. ๋ ๋์ ์ผ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ํด ์ ์์ด๋ค์ ์ธ์ง๋ก ๋ ๋ฌ๋ค๊ณ ํ๋๋ฐ, ์ผ์ ์ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ณต์ฅ์ด ๋ค์ด์๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ๋ค์ ๋์์ฌ๊น. ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋๋ฉด ์ฟ ํก์ ์๋ฐ์ฒ๋ผ ํ์๋ก์์ง๊น.
2.์๊ฐ
์ธ์ฒ์ ์๋ค๊ฐ ์์ด์ง ๊ณต์
์ผ์ . ์ฟ ํก์์ ์ง๊ธ ์กฐ์ฑ ์ค์ธ ๊ณต์
์ผ์ . ์ธ์ฒ์ ์ผ์ ์ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ์ผ, ์ฟ ํก์ ์ผ์ ์ ํ์ฌ์งํํ. ์ธ์ฒ์ ํ์ฌ๋ ์ฟ ํก์๊ฒ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ด๋ค.
์ฟ ํก์์ ์์ผ๋ก ์ผ์ด๋ ์ผ์ ๊ณต ์
์ผ์ ์กฐ์ฑ์ด ์๋ฃ๋๋ฉด ์์ฐ๋ ์๊ธ์ ํํ ๊ณต์
์ ์๋ฃ๋ก ์ฐ์ด๊ณ , ์ฐ์ ์ง์ญ์์๋ ๊ณต์
๋จ์ง ์กฐ์ฑ์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ง์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก ์ธ์ฒ์ ๊ณต๋จ ๋ชจ์ต๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ ์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ค. ์ธ์ฒ์ ์ง๊ธ์ ์ฟ ํก์๊ฒ ๋ฏธ๋์ ํ๊ฒฝ์ด๋ค.
์๊ณต์ด ๊ผฌ์ด๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค. ์ฟ ํก์ ์ ์๋ ๋๋ ํ์ฌ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํ๋ค ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ณต์กํด์ ธ์ ์ด์ง๋ฌ์ ๋ค. ๋๋ ๋๋ฃ์ ๋์์ด ํ์ํ๋ค.
1. A Bad Joke
Stories never line up perfectly. When I said I was going to Kupang, everyone around me gave a peculiar smile. "To work?" In Korea, working at a company named 'Coupang'—resembling a Korean version of Amazon—is known as moving goods under conditions where having a healthy body alone isn't enough to call it good. News of people dying from heatstrokes or overwork pops up occasionally, and confessions of people fleeing because they couldn't endure even half a day are overflowing. Meanwhile, Juan Salt Pan, the starting point of this project, made me think of it as if it were a Latin-sounding name pronounced 'Juan', rather than the pure Korean name read as 'Joo-An' during my research in Korea. Later, when I arrived in Kupang, I found there was a St. Juan Monastery, and also Juan was a common name, there. There was absolutely no connection.
I have never actually seen the Juan Salt Pan in Incheon. The salt pan that started in Juan in 1907 spread to neighboring areas, reaching about 1,000 hectares, and this region gradually transformed into an industrial complex starting in the 1960s. The Juan I saw was a place where coal was piled high, and there were many factories handling iron here and there. I vividly remember the harshness of life in Incheon during the '80s. I believe the extraction of human and material resources from this neighborhood, which began during the colonial era, fattened life in Seoul rather than making this neighborhood prosperous. The industrial salt pan under construction in Kupang is estimated to be over 1,500 hectares, exceeding the total size of all the salt pans that used to be in Incheon. Due to issues with the berthing facilities, the salt extraction seemed to have ground to a halt, and local villagers had come out to catch fish in the salt pan waterways. They say it takes over two hours by land to connect with Lifuleo, a candidate site for an adjacent industrial complex; it needs to be connected by sea, but whether that will happen anytime soon or if it will remain halted as it is remains to be seen. The industrial complex currently has only one thermal power plant and no other facilities. When we visited, local youths were betting on motorcycle races on the well-paved road.
Daniel told us that people from East Timor are coming to Bali to engage in manual labor. They say the young people have left for other regions in search of better jobs, but if the salt pans and factories are established, will they return? If that happens, will Kupang become as prosperous as Java?
2. Time
The industrial salt pans in Incheon that existed and then disappeared. The industrial salt pans currently being created in Kupang. Incheon’s salt pans are a matter of the past, while Kupang’s salt pans are in the present progressive. Incheon’s present is Kupang’s past.
What will happen in Kupang in the future is that once the industrial salt pan construction is complete, the produced salt will be used as raw material for the chemical industry, and the construction of an industrial complex may take place in the coastal area. It might become like the appearance of Incheon’s industrial complexes in the future. Incheon’s present is the future scenery for Kupang.
Methodology and Artistic Practice
- Performative Walking as Time-Travel: Utilizing bodily movement and specific personas (covered faces and synchronized walking) to physically register spatial tension, disorientation, and historical layers across disparate geographical sites.
- Non-linear Cross-cutting Montage: Juxtaposing Juan and Kupang, ground-level textures and macroscopic drone views, and natural coastlines and artificial facilities to deconstruct linear historical paradigms.
- Geopolitical Research and Archival Synthesis: Grounding the visual narrative in on-site field investigations of industrial development, logistics routes, and the realities of raw material production in Asia.
"์ธ์ฒ์ ์ฃผ์(์ผ์ ์ด ๊ณต๋จ/๋์๊ฐ ๋ ๊ณณ)๊ณผ ์ฟ ํก(์ผ์ ์ด ์๋กญ๊ฒ ๋ค์ด์๋ ๊ณณ)์ ์๊ฐ์ ๊ผฌ์์ด, ๊ด๊ฐ์๊ฒ ๋จ์ํ 'ํฉ๋ํ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋์ด'์ด๋ '๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ์ธ SF์ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ'๋ฅผ ๋ ์ ํํ ์ง๊ธ, ์ด ๋ ์ฅ์๊ฐ ํ์ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋์ด ์๋๊ฐ(๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์๋ณธ๊ณผ ๋ฌผ์ง์ ์ด๋ ์ฌ์ฌ)'๋ผ๋ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ผ๋ก๊น์ง ๋ช ํํ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ฟ๊ณ ์๋๊ฐ?"
