Continuity

performance

3 min.

2008

The Gwangju edition of DICTIONARY OF WAR (Sep 5, 2008)is realized by Annett Busch, Jan Gerber, Susanne Lang, Sebastian Luetgert, and Florian Schneider in close collaboration with the curators of the 7th Gwangju Biennale, and is made possible with the support of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation.

We could find a definition for the word “continuity” as such: “A detailed script or scenario consulted to avoid discrepancies from shot to shot in a film, allowing the various scenes to be shot out of order.” While all possible kinds of “wars” are going on in the world all “possible details” disappear. But details are the bridge towards what makes life more real and interesting. By disappearance of the detail, absurdity evolves in reality and the aspire to continuity is a strong contest around this absurdity.
(http://dictionaryofwar.org/concepts/Continuity)

Continuity

Mr. Kim: For the last 4.5 billion years, the sun has come to us very morning for 365 days.
Mr. Lee: Then what remains in your memory?
Mr. Kim: Fear, fear that my body will break into little pieces.
Mr. Lee: Did you always fight with others because of your fear?
Mr. Kim: But they always left very suddenly.
Mr. Lee: You don’t seem to think things through. If you think things through, the world will become more interesting. Of course…questions often arise that makes you worry.
Mr. Kim: I don’t know why I always forget what made me afraid in the first place.
Mr. Lee: It may be because your fear was too great.
Mr. Kim: I remember things disappearing suddenly without warning, and sometimes helplessly seeing them disappear right in front of my eyes.
Mr. Lee: Do you need help?
Mr. Kim: Absolutely.
Mr. Lee: It’s not that time flies. It’s not that you and I need to be friends forever. However, we must not forget to remind each other that we share the same memory.
( pause )
Mr. Kim: I will understand even if you fall from the tenth window for the tenth time. Your funeral is the day after tomorrow.
Mr. Lee: Crossing each other does not mean that we get further away from each other. A poet once remarked that when two trains cross each other under the bridge, he found the two speeds come to a standstill.
Mr. Kim: Yes, when I went to Busan for the first time in 20 years to find you, you were on your way to Seoul. There was certainly a moment that we crossed each other. I feel much easy now.
The train was running and we were on our way.
Mr. Lee: I’m glad that the poet’s mind and your mind were at a standstill for a moment.
(pause)
Mr. Kim: Even though you fully explain the details of the circumstance, somehow another person may break you into pieces
Mr. Lee: Even though time flies…