2019, 2021
single-channel video, 6 min 50 sec
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A Project by Ayoung Kim
Producer: Heejung Oh
Assistant Researchers: Dan Jang, Eunchae Cho, Hyun-Jin Shin and Ninj Byambasuren
Local Coordinator in Mongolia: Jargalsaikhan Shinetsetseg
Cinematographer: Uuganbayar Ganbaatar and Ayoung Kim
Interpreter: Zorig Orgilbayar
Editing: Ayoung Kim
3D Modelling of the Mother Rock: Young-min Choi
3D Modelling of Landscapes and 3D Animation: Lee Seoyeong
Subtitles: ARum Nam
Mongolian to Korean Translation: Tegshjargal Enkhburtei
Korean to English Translation: Eugene Hannah Park
Subtitle Proofreading (English): Ryu Soyoon
Helper: Jihyun Min
Music: CIFIKA from MOTHER
Interviewees
Historian: Yundenbat Boldbaatar (Mongolian University of Science and Technology)
Geologist: Bulgantamir Odkhuu (Senior Project Geologist at NewCAML Mongolia LLC)
Director of Museum of Geology and Mineral Resources, Mongolia: Majigsuren Yondon
Restaurant owner nearby the Mother Rock, Mongolia
Visitor at the Mother Rock, Mongolia
Co-commissioned by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, SBS Foundation, Korea, and “Migration Project” (in the part curated by Haeju Kim) of Goethe Institut.
Supported by Arts Council Korea
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2019, 2021
단채널 영상, 6분 50초
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김아영 프로젝트
프로듀서: 오희정
보조 리서치: 닌지, 신현진, 장단, 조은채
몽골 현지 코디네이터: 자르갈사이항 신체체그
촬영: 오강바야르 강바타르, 김아영
통역: 저리그 오리길바야르
편집: 김아영
어머니바위 3D 모델링: 최영민
지형 3D 모델링 및 3D 애니메이션: 이서영
자막: 남아름
자막 번역 (몽골어-한글): 텍시자르갈 엥흐부르테
자막 번역 (한글-영문): 박유진
자막 감수 (영문): 유소윤
도움: 민지현
음악: CIFIKA from MOTHER
인터뷰에 응한 분들
역사학자: 유뎅바트 볼드바타르, 몽골과학기술대학교
지질학자: 볼강타미르 오드후, 선임 지질학자 -NewCAML 몽골 LLC
지질광물자원 박물관장: 마지그수렝 융동, 지질광물자원 박물관, 몽골
어머니 바위 성소 근처 식당 주인
어머니 바위 성소 방문객
국립현대미술관, SBS문화재단, 독일문화원 “이주 프로젝트 (김해주 기획 부문)” 커미션
한국문화예술위원회 후원
— 2026 Of the Earth: Earthly Technologies to Computational Biologie, Diriyah Art Futures, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
— 2024 Modern Mondays: An Evening with Ayoung Kim, MoMA, New York, US (Solo screening and talk)
— 2024 Ayoung Kim: Speculations and Tales, M+, Hong Kong (Solo screening and talk)
— 2023 20th CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark (Solo Screening and talk)
— 2022 Earth Heat Flow: The Visitor Who Returns to Solar Time, from the 1st Beijing Biennial Symbiosis, Beijing, China
— 2022 MUBING IMIJI JEONSIHAGI, Special Screening at Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland (Curated by Adeena Mey)
— 2022 Body & Cosmos: The Art of Living Together, Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Changsha, China
— 2022 Human, 7 Questions, Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea
— 2021 Frequencies of Tradition, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
— 2021 If Time is Money, Are ATMs Time Machines?, G Museum of Art x Kadist Foundation, Nanjing, China
— 2021 Human, 7 Questions, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
— 2020 Frequencies of Tradition (Kadist Asia Program), Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
— 2019 Migration: Speaking Nearby, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
— 2019 Korea Artist Prize, MMCA Seoul, Korea
Links and Downloads
In 2019, Ayoung Kim travelled to Mongolia to research its abundant animistic belief system towards land, mother rock, stones and sacred caves that purify human guilts. It is the widespread belief of the Mongolian people that rocks and minerals are alive, like other natural elements. Consider the particular origin myth that human beings were born from rocks. From where does the belief come from, and why has it prevailed for so long…? Ayoung Kim traces this topic and creates her own hyperbolic mythology connected to the origin of Petra Genetrix by integrating interviews with a historian, geologist, geology museum director, and the locals. By way of the notion of Petrogenesis – which refers to a genesis from rocks – Ayoung Kim wanders the interrelated and overlapped layers of time, as though lost in the Earth’s strata.
“Quartz can be considered to be a type of natural computer, since it absorbs and stores a large amount of energy.” Can we think of the rocks and stones that have existed since the beginning of the Earth as the Earth’s vehicle for memory storage?
땅에 대한 심원한 믿음이 지속되어 온 것으로 알려진 몽골로 조사여행을 떠난 작가는, 몽골의 대지 어머니 신앙, 어머니바위 신앙, 돌과 바위가 살아 있다는 믿음, 인류가 공유하는 바위에서 태어난 인간에 대한 신화를 더듬어 간다. 이러한 믿음은 왜 지구 곳곳에서 이토록 오랫동안 지속되어 온 것일까?
현재 진행형인 이 프로젝트는 역사학자, 지질학자, 지질학 박물관장, 일반인들과의 인터뷰를 조합하여 페트라 제네트릭스의 기원과 맞닿는 또 다른 신화를 만들어 나간다.
“석영은 일종의 자연산 컴퓨터로 간주될 수 있습니다. 많은 에너지를 빨아들이고 저장하기 때문이지요.”
지구의 탄생과 함께 존재해 온 돌과 바위는 어쩌면 지구의 기억을 저장하는 메모리와도 같은 것이었을까?