2 + ONE
February 2019 | Projection Mapping, Motion Capture //Touch Designer
When the viewer rotate the sculpture on the floor, the movement triggers the three animators showing on the projection and make them start to dance.
Mapping three videos on one screen to strong third dimension feeling.
Tape the grid on the floor to extend the projected screen to real space to make an illusion between vitual and reality .
Tape the grid on the floor to extend the projected screen to real space to make an illusion between vitual and reality .
K Pop, short for Korean pop music has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity in recent years. Its success is inseparable from marketing. 2+1 is one of promotion strategies in Korea, markets offer a free product to stimulate consumption. If 2+1 strategy applies in a K-Pop group, the one should not be an ignored free product but a leading product to attract eyes. Entertainment companies drive the idols from appearance, music to performance concept and even personality. Long-term repetitive system training like mechanical assembly creates popular idols. Compared to K-Pop world is full of color, idols who produced by K-Pop industry are rounded of the corners of their character.
In this work, three videos showing in the projection, from right to left, present the relation between fans and idols; how entertainment companies create human to be an idol and how idols see themselves. Rolling script plays on the left video is from one of BTS songs called IDOL.
“You can call me artist.
You can call me idol.
No matter what you call me. I don’t care.
I’m proud of it.
I’m free.
I know what I am.
I know what I want.
I never gon’ change.
I never gon’ trade.”
The work creates a reality and virtuality space make people sitting in the boundaries of the K-Pop world and the real world. When we are no longer an outsider who can clearly see the world of K-Pop, how do we evaluate the current state of life? Are we also being controlled in all directions like an idol? Modernization makes us live in an ideal society that looks fair and orderly without disputes. Science and technology bring great improvement in life, at the same time, we are gradually being trained into highly mechanized living organisms. However, the reasons for these problems are based on the essence of human existence.
