Ruins of Mimesis, Mimesis of Ruins
Hello, I'm Yongkwan Kim.
My entry ‘Ruins of Mimesis,
Mimesis of Ruins’ goes like this.
The universe came to a stop one day
because time and space ran out of memory.
While the sculptor copies it
to a smaller space,
He contemplates the abstract and
semi-abstract pieces.
The fiction ‘The Circular Ruins’ by
Jorge Luis Borges (1899~1986) is the motif of this film.
I've always thought that the ‘Circular’ of
‘The Circular Ruins’ meant ‘idea’.
I enjoyed the fantasy:
the idea is collapsed,
the essence falls down
and the original is scattered.
But, it turns out to be a circle.
Dissatisfied a bit but I was more curious
about the story of ‘The Circular Ruins’
or the stories derived from it.
‘Idea of circle’
‘Circle of idea’
‘Mimesis of Mimesis’
‘Ruins of Mimesis’
‘Mimesis of Ruins’
I kept on fantasizing about them.
‘Ruins of Mimesis, Mimesis of Ruins’
was made based on such fantasies.
I'm interested in ‘new time and space’
and ‘new world’, not here and now.
I always imagine a world
that has new basic structure
which consists of new physical laws
and minimal units.
Presumably, it is possible
that the view of the world, setup,
supposition are based on
other things rather than science.
For example, art fiction,
view of the world, setup, supposition
which are predicated in arts
arts of remote future,
arts of existence, not of human,
arts of alternative history
arts of other time and space,
where different physical laws apply.
a world that every human
makes arts,
and a universe where artistic concepts
form the basis of physical laws, etc.
Most of my works start from
various view of the world
setup, supposition
based on such imagination.
