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[homage to Bahc’s homage to Paik]
2024
Performance, 72 hour fast + 27 minutes.
thud.
After a year of trying to preserve a bouquet of flowers,
we go for a walk before we part ways.
Flowers cannot be immortalized
— ish, for we shall remember.
Though we too shall be gone one day,
that’s okay. For someone shall remember our times.
* Performed 8:30 PM on April 22, 2024 (fast on April 19-22), Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
* Performance images by Ilya Akimov, edited by artist.
* Video archive by Ciel Arbour-Boehme, edited by artist;
Viewing link may be made available upon request: yoonsikchicopark@gmail.com
- Fast for 72 hours. Just water, prepare yourself.
- Untie the strings from the bouquet, untangle the confused questions of yesterday.
- Tie them together and attach the bouquet onto you, recount how those questions have led to who you are today.
- Take a walk around, [ redacted ].
- Walk out onto the field, let go of all that you have feared.
- Wrap the string back onto the bouquet, this is the summary of your past life.
- Place the bouquet back onto the pedestal, remember those who don’t have a resting place.
- Pour fuel onto the bouquet, accept your fate for the life ahead in its entirity.
- Light the fire, remember that this all is ultimately your choice.
- Watch the fire burn, [ redacted ]
- Watch the fire burn, [ redacted ]
- Watch the fire burn, [ redacted ]
Fast After Thanksgiving Day, Mo Bahc (1984)
Violin with String (Zen for Walking), Nam June Paik (1961)