쌍둥이
도시의
그림자들
SHADOWS
IN TWIN
CITIES
Jessica has lead this major 5-year-long cross cultural project bringing together children from Jeonju (Korea) and Melbourne (Australia) in unusual conversations between each other and their city landscapes.
Shadows in Twin Cities: 쌍둥이 도시의 그림자들 took place at ArtPlay and Fed Square (Melbourne), and Palbok Art Factory (South Korea) culminating in a series of events for Asia TOPA 2025.
The workshop series Meet Me (너랑 나랑), used life-size live video and processes that enabled participants to communicate without words, then traced their forms onto traditional Hanji paper. The resulting figures were combined with drawings of their own faces, then embedded in the local landscape to create very place-based responses that were shared back using video.
In Watch Me Fly (바람을 만난 그림자) the project positioned video footage of children playing with and ‘flying’ each other’s shadow on large public screens in each city, an antidote to urban environments dominated by adult constructs. For Asia TOPA, Fed Square's big screen was used in a rare child-takeover.
Find My Shadow (그림자 숨바꼭질) is a major public artwork where Melbourne children used a map to explore the landscape around Fed Square to find Hanji shadows in pasted in unexpected (and very public) places.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Australian Lead Artist: Jessica Wilson
Korean Lead Artist: Gijong Yoo (유기종)
Producers: Jeany Lee & Sim Minjeong
Technical Production Managers: Jamie Donald Turner, 유효창
Videography: Mirye Park, 김효진
Interpreters: Anna Kim, Cindy Mooney, Areum Kim, 이지선
This project is an ArtPlay initiative created in collaboration with the Jeonju Cultural Foundation, supported by the Australian International Cultural Diplomacy Arts Fund, Fed Square, the Playing Foundation and the Australia Korea Foundation.
이 활동은 아트플레이와 전주문화재단이 공동 제작하여 호주 국제문화외교예술기금, 플레이킹재단, 페드스퀘어 그리고 호한재단의 지원을 받아 진행 됩니다.