Song Min Jung (South Korea)

Song Min Jung observes the surface of culture that remains in the present – the temporal concept of time – and creates a fictional story using the contradictions that arise in between. She borrows several storytelling techniques such as advertisement, drama, v-logs and games to weave a new world and participate in contemporary discussion. Therefore, the world she summons much resembles the present.

During her stay at Malt AIR, Song Min Jung plans to search for a Danish novel written in the 20th century and translate it with Google Translate in order to either adapt or extract a new story by filling in the gaps created by the translators errors and lack of vocabulary. Her goal is to gather voices derived from different realities, such as historical background, cultural topography, physical body and language, and bring them into the present through her work. The world she creates here will infiltrate the gap between an unfamiliar body from Seoul and a remote city in Denmark to become a medium of connection.