How can you define contemporary art?
What is an artwork? What is not an artwork?
Do people really need contemporary art these days?
Is there any sincere criticism and real communication in this time?
The first time that we started this project, we were sick of contemporary art
This holding of the wine glass
This big party without any audience
So that's why I don't believe that art is communicating with the audience
We wanted to make a platform to invite many other people
To think about what we are doing these days as an artist
Our project is called ‘News from Nowhere’
It’s an interdisciplinary project, so we invited lots of people
Such as architects, designers, doctors, scientists, musicians, monks and educators
So we will get together and try to redefine the meaning of contemporary art
Jeon and I decided to make some scenario
This is why we started this kind of filming, to share our collaborators through this project
Anything could be an artwork
Art can be functional
Real functional, or give us some motivation to the functional
Or functional to self-reflection, or introspection
We really focused on the process of making
It means we really want to put into our thoughts and journey with our collaborators
So it’s not only the meaning of what is real, or some surface of the artwork
Our first film, ‘El Fin Del Mundo’
It adapts to a futuristic setting, an apocalypse situation
And then rethinks about our present time
This portrays two characters who are artists
So we think the man is the last man before the apocalypse
And the female artist is the newborn after the post-apocalyptic situation
They are doing very similar things
The man's side, we call ‘this is art’
And the woman's side, ‘is this art or not?’
But they are doing very similar things
And we are making very fundamental questions
How do the artists stay relevant at the end of the world?
We love the scientific way to rethink about our present time
Frankly speaking, we are not interested in the future
We are interested in the present time
Because the future is a mirror of the present
So we borrowed the future time
One day I asked the film director, his name is Lee Chang-dong
He is a Korean film director
We asked, ‘what is the meaning of art to you?’
He said, ‘If religion gives us answers about our limits, artists question’
After meeting with lots of people, we learned a lot from them
So we believe in art again